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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 11:05 AM EDT |
It looks like Ayumu has photographic memory.
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| Authored by: artp on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 02:09 PM EDT |
Significant. But I thought the "doomsday" music that they
added for dramatic effect was a bit over the top.
Coming soon to a theatre near you:
"Ayumu takes over MIT!"
"Ayumu heads up NASA!"
"Planet of the Apes is REAL!!!!"
Just remember, when these come out, the **AA need to send me
my royalties.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 03:57 PM EDT |
The reason that the chimp can perform this feat faster than
humans is due to the wiring in a chimp's brain being less
complex than in a human's. It is for the same reason that
hardware accelerated video decoders can decode video faster
with less hardware footprint than a general purpose CPU
programmed to decode video. Chimps may have a use for this
form of tracking in following members of their own troop or
monkeys they are stalking in the trees while they are on the
move. Humans who live in a 2D terrain don't need this sort
of tracking to operate at the same speed.
There was also another finding in the research: when human
children are taught a task with some superfluous steps, they
tend to copy the superfluous steps, while chimps ignore them
and only copy the functional steps. Are chimps more
intelligent? Well, the researchers' conclusions were that
human children did this because human children are hard
wired to learn in a way that chimps are not. If children are
instructed to do something, they will dutifully copy
everything first and only later think about dropping the
superfluous steps.
The problem with measuring intelligence is that we haven't
managed yet to define what exactly it is. That is why IQ
tests are controversial. IQ tests are an extremely reliable
measure of how well people do in IQ tests. Are they a
measure of intelligence? The answer is no - unless you
define intelligence as how well someone does in IQ tests.
The reality is that most taxi drivers and hairdressers
familiar with puzzles and conundrums would be able to likely
to beat Albert Einstein in an IQ test, simply through speed
and familiarity with the type of questions posed.
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