Video of the Week: Talking to the Animals

Interspecies chatbots?

That can understand elephants, whales - and even your pet pooch?

AI thrives on patterns and - if it's true that animals do really communicate with each other in complex ways through their calls, trumpets, barks and brays - then AI is going to find out what it is that they're all saying to each other and then maybe, just maybe, enable us to talk with them directly too.

Alternatively, we may just find out what many of us have suspected all along, neatly summed-up in this cartoon ...