alt Hacker NewsAi, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49
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I misread this as AI initially ...
The only art-centric monkey I knew was Koko, the female gorilla.
Here she draws some things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iixL0CMOAM
Smartest monkey I ever saw was Kanzi though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKinbfgrkU
I think it is only a question and matter of time before the prison systems for monkeys may have to be reconsidered completely. Of course even smarter monkeys than Kanzi won't reach human brain functions, but they are also very convincingly extremely clever and can adapt. Numerous videos where monkeys handle (!) smartphones show this already and this is just the beginning. Like, in the movie Planet of the Apes. Just long-term in smaller steps.
I'd genuinely like a black bar for this- cross-species respect.
Would love to see some of his paintings, let me just google "AI chimp painting" .. oh..
More about Ai: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0604-0
> Born wild, Ai was soon taken into captivity and sold to KUPRI in 1977 by an animal trader (this type of sale became illegal in 1980 with Japan's ratification of CITES).
So how do we do this kind of thing now?
Sleep easy fellow earthling, there’s a new Ai in town now.
does someone have a video about him counting and/or painting?
Hey universe, when people is asking for the end of AI, they don't mean this.
Impossible to not make a joke about this being just more ai news on the front page.
God took the wrong Ai, RIP
My coworkers gifted me a painting by cheeta (the last chimp to play him) when I left the job. I framed it professionally in rattan and banana wood. The painting itself looks very similar to the paintings by Ai- same color schemes and patterns.
Edit to add instead of a new comment: I also remember how good of a life he had in retirement. He lived in an apartment-like dwelling. Slept in a bed, woke up and ate some fruit. Would plink on the piano awhile, maybe paint some, go for a swim or walk, maybe play the piano or paint some more.... it was amusing to read while slaving away at the coding mines.