I was reading through this list of 2024 AI Predictions and one little offhanded remark caught my eye:

And if you wanna hear something really wacky, I think we will be able to talk to our pets in under 10 years.

That is a crazy concept but, turns out, already in the works. A group of scientists studying sperm whale pods trained an AI on recorded vocalizations and discovered that AI's results matched their own assumptions on what each call meant. Is this confirmation bias? Maybe! Or, AI could be cracking open the door to decoding vocalizations. Or maybe even a bit of both.

I highly suggest reading through the entire article as it contains many gems about language, deciphering between human languages and how that process may apply to animals as well. Fascinating to say the very least.