Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them
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#2That's why I've a manager
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#3Chimps' prompt engineering.
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#4Interesting study. The performance increase on the difficult task as audience size increases is counterintuitive at first, but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences.
Yet for some of us the stress of being observed and scrutinized is crippling regardless of the task difficulty. I've bombed so many interviews because of this. :(
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#5Maybe they're quantum chimpanzees
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#6Because they think they're getting treats for it, from the humans.
I don't think they see any value in computer tasks other than getting treats.
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#7Interesting study. The performance increase on the difficult task as audience size increases is counterintuitive at first, but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences. Yet for some of us the stress of being observed and scrutinized is crippling regardless of the task difficulty. I've bombed so many interviews because of this. :(
The people watching were familiar to the chimps, so desire to please or pride may have overcome fear of failure.
It was also only 6 chimps and the experiments were run over many years. I bet replication is going to be troublesome.
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#8Because they think they're getting treats for it, from the humans. I don't think they see any value in computer tasks other than getting treats.
Doesn't sound so different from a lot of jobs...
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#9Because they think they're getting treats for it, from the humans. I don't think they see any value in computer tasks other than getting treats.
Doesn't sound so different from a lot of jobs...
The scene from Groundhog's Day with the two drunk guys.
Stuck in the same day over and over again. Yep, sounds about right.
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#10Pretty soon the apes in charge are going to be using this study to demand that the chimps return to the office 5 days per week.