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.
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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.
I misread this as AI initially ...
The only art-centric monkey I knew was Koko, the female gorilla.
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.
Fun fact! Koko’s abilities to sign and communicate were a total fraud!
Thanks, they seem like more than just random splashes of color.. possibly I'm anthropomorphising but it feels like it was straining to draw something specific like a young child would.
Yes, same with Koko. I think they do not fully understand art and
abstraction, nor profits made by good art. It is too abstract.
They can, however had, understand sign language and symbol language,
and basically that art is also an abstraction. Will probably take a
while before we can identify abstract art by apes.
It’s hardly distinguishable from modern art though!
> 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?
I think monkeys are still bred in some zoos. I know that because there is typically media outrage when monkeys are killed in zoos when they were overbred. It's a very questionable system, since they are basically prisoners, then kind of forced or encouraged to breed, and then whacked to death when there are "too many". It's weird because zoos also claim to help preserve some species.
Why should we?
Sleep easy fellow earthling, there’s a new Ai in town now.
Reminds me of AiAi in Super Monkey Ball.
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.
Apparently, since the majority of top level comments right now - about 6 at the time of my comment - are making basically the same joke.
I thought this place was supposed to be better than reddit in such ways. Do better, HN.
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.
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.
Fun fact! Koko’s abilities to sign and communicate were a total fraud!
https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/
Here's Rambo, an orangutan, driving a golf cart in Dubai: https://youtu.be/ERTrOwEb5M8
Don't call him a monk- aaaaarghhh...
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Librarian
"I think this was a powerful lesson on the dangers of AI. Which by the way means 'love' in Chinese."
Elon Tusk, Rick and Morty, S4E4: https://youtu.be/xQHCz9ZZorA?t=129
Koko, that chimp’s alright.
And before someone comes in to correct: yes, we're monkeys. No, the taxonomists don't know any better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
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Would love to see some of his paintings, let me just google "AI chimp painting" .. oh..
There are some of them in this article https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0604-0
Thanks, they seem like more than just random splashes of color.. possibly I'm anthropomorphising but it feels like it was straining to draw something specific like a young child would.
Yes, same with Koko. I think they do not fully understand art and abstraction, nor profits made by good art. It is too abstract.
They can, however had, understand sign language and symbol language, and basically that art is also an abstraction. Will probably take a while before we can identify abstract art by apes.
It’s hardly distinguishable from modern art though!
Hey, she did her best.
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?
I think monkeys are still bred in some zoos. I know that because there is typically media outrage when monkeys are killed in zoos when they were overbred. It's a very questionable system, since they are basically prisoners, then kind of forced or encouraged to breed, and then whacked to death when there are "too many". It's weird because zoos also claim to help preserve some species.
Why should we?
Sleep easy fellow earthling, there’s a new Ai in town now.
Reminds me of AiAi in Super Monkey Ball.
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.
Apparently, since the majority of top level comments right now - about 6 at the time of my comment - are making basically the same joke.
I thought this place was supposed to be better than reddit in such ways. Do better, HN.
God took the wrong Ai, RIP