For some years I&#x27;ve been thinking about how to use modern machine learning and artificial intelligence in animal training. Most &quot;automated&quot; uses of animal training involve lab animals pressing some buttons, but it should be possible  to teach a mouse&#x2F;rat to visit a particular place in a cage, or hold a certain pose, sniff out something, or a parrot to hum a tune.<p>But it would also require an algorithm to score &quot;progress&quot; toward a multi dimensional training goal and encode that into binary reward&#x2F;no reward signals.