A Chinese startup has unveiled an AI-powered collar that claims to translate animal sounds into human language, a concept that has inevitably sparked many questions.Priced at $149.99 (£110) on its website, Hangzhou-based company Meng Xiaoyi says its PettiChat device uses artificial intelligence to i...
The entire point of this is that owners wouldn’t need to pay attention. Their pets collar will just blare simple words/phrases at them and sometimes it’ll be right
It’ll almost always say “feed me” and the pet will almost always want that, so it’s gonna feel like it’s working.
It helps pets communicate, but only pets who have bad/lazy owners.
Yeah; my point is that it could be as useful as a button board, but for most people it’ll be no different than something that detects ANY audio from a pet and plays a a random sound from a collection. And once the novelty wears off, they’ll ignore it the same way they were already ignoring their pet.
But for those few people that would already invest the time and effort in a button board, this could be useful as a mobile equivalent.