let’s say you needed to create intermediaries between us and the other mammals. if a machine can learn sign language by watching TV, couldn’t one learn horse, dolphin or crow?
to do so, it would have to be more than a computer but rather an autonomous robot, capable of following its pack, mimicking gestures, touch. it would also, most likely, have to be introduced to its assignments as a “newborn.”
whether we’d ever get instinct right, however, is another matter.