News Baidu developing AI-driven animal to human translator – Dr Doolittle plans revealed in patent application

i don't really care about talking to animals.... however this kind of thing seems like it could be used to understand potential changes in their health. Pretty much anyone that's had a sick pet has felt the frustration of not being able to simply ask them "what's wrong?"
 
I'd imagine this will rely on humans to properly label and classify the input data, so I doubt this will lead to any breakthroughs, but it should bring expert level knowledge down to a more accessible level.