Artificial intelligence is being used to better understand our friends in the animal kingdom. University of Michigan ...

However, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI ... activated an animal is) and valence (whether an emotion is ...

A couple of years ago I was invited to attend a workshop on animal consciousness with ... hence currently attribute consciousness to AI. But it is easy to imagine how that would change as the ...

Google has open sourced an AI model, SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species by analyzing photos from camera traps. Researchers around the world use camera traps — digital cameras ...

Meanwhile, AI is also making groundbreaking improvements to animal conservation efforts in our state. Last summer, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced a new research project to ...

It got me to revisit the fundamental question of consciousness and how we could possibly know what, if anything, goes on in the mind of another animal. And it raised timely questions about whether AI ...