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We should establish that the crow would only 'attack' any human living in this flat (and neglect any other human walking by this back alley).
I’m surprised no one has attempted to train crows for use in asymmetrical warfare. At least before the advent of cheap drones.
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They'd still be better than cheap drones at remote pick-pocketing - if you could train them to spot and snatch coins and bills. I was wondering about the opposite too. Could you train a crow to watch you throw a marker, say a pebble of specific color, and then fly to the location it landed to perform specific action? Say, if we go for personal mischief instead of warfare: - red marker = find whatever interesting obje…
I suspect they would be difficult to train, because of their attitude. We see this with many wild animals. Dogs train easily, but coyotes and wolves, who are even smarter, are much more difficult to train. One of my favorite nature vignettes, is a part of Planet Earth , by the BBC, about Cape Hunting Dogs[0]. It looks like a military assault. They are really clever, and work well, as a team. But if you could train cr…
We consider this smart and intelligent, but many people don't want to admit that LLMs are intelligent?
I think its because animals are many interconnected systems or models which are made to create "intelligent" behavior, like one for speak one for movement and alike. LLMs are trained purely off text, so they are more similar to a very simple animal that only has one type of inputs and outputs like a worm that only knows where its body is and then where it wants to be. LLMs are also only trained for a short period of…
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It isn't just statistics and bad luck for PM inventors. There are physical reasons arguing strongly that it's impossible.
That's what I said. How are you reading the opposite?
I took "reasoned to be false" as sort of a weak and refutable statement.
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> We're not the only intelligent life on earth. We cant even define intelligence or measure it meaningfully. If we can't define or measure intelligence meaningfully, how can you even claim we are 'intelligent' to begin with? > Elephants, crows, dolphins, octopi, chimps, orang utan are all clearly very smart The have levels of intelligence, but they are clearly not very smart. You couldn't even teach them the multipli…
I think your statements are written in a very confident manner that comes across as trying to win, but this is a nuanced question. > how can you even claim we are 'intelligent' to begin with? because I can claim it. You're focusing on semantics and attacking the fact that a set definitions can't be done. I think debating the nature of whether semantics maps to a valid conceptualization is probably not very productive…
When I was little I had a small bb gun and would shoot cans in the backyard. A couple times i shot a crow and it would bounce off their strong chest and they would fly off seemingly unfazed. One time by pure chance I hit a crow in the neck and it died instantly, crashing down into my neighbor's yard. It was very shocking because I had not killed anything like that before. Immediately crows started circling my parents…
When I was little I had a small bb gun and would shoot cans in the backyard. A couple times i shot a crow and it would bounce off their strong chest and they would fly off seemingly unfazed. One time by pure chance I hit a crow in the neck and it died instantly, crashing down into my neighbor's yard. It was very shocking because I had not killed anything like that before. Immediately crows started circling my parents…
Your parents should have told you not to harm animals for no reason to begin with, and the fact that this isn't the takeaway from this story is frankly very concerning.
That was the takeaway.
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I suspect they would be difficult to train, because of their attitude. We see this with many wild animals. Dogs train easily, but coyotes and wolves, who are even smarter, are much more difficult to train. One of my favorite nature vignettes, is a part of Planet Earth , by the BBC, about Cape Hunting Dogs[0]. It looks like a military assault. They are really clever, and work well, as a team. But if you could train cr…
Dogs are wolves. All of them.
I don’t know why these things are surprising. To me, the assumption that animals can’t do things we later discovered they could do is the surprising thing. Such arrogance we humans have.
Because they have such little brains. When I look at a crow, I think - not much room for brains in there.
Humans are just arrogant and overconfident. We’re an incredibly flawed species and we’ve created incredibly flawed societies.
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I think its because animals are many interconnected systems or models which are made to create "intelligent" behavior, like one for speak one for movement and alike. LLMs are trained purely off text, so they are more similar to a very simple animal that only has one type of inputs and outputs like a worm that only knows where its body is and then where it wants to be. LLMs are also only trained for a short period of…
But you can also give audio and video to multimodal LLMs - although it does become odd to call them LLMs then. And in theory you could give any sensory input data.
