Display remarkable intelligence, that is...after spending all of yesterday discussing various aspects of personhood (from embryos to animals to artificial intelligence) at the Terasem conference, this article is timely in illustrating the evidence accumulating on animal intelligence:
'The chimp who outwits humans; the dolphin who says it with seaweed; the existential dog... An elephant that never forgets its extended family, a chimp that can
outperform humans in a sophisticated test of visual memory and an amorous male dolphin that likes to say it with flowers -- well, a clump of river weeds to be more precise. These are just some of the recent observations from the field of animal behaviour. They appear to show that there is no limit to the intelligence of animals, but what do we really know about the true cognitive powers of the non-human brain?"
To read the rest of the article,
click here. And to see a remarkable demonstration, click
here.
It was thought for the longest time that humans were the only species that could 'speak' -- then came along Washoe and Koko and Alex, and now, Hungarian researchers have written a promising program that could translate the meaning of dogs' barks, and it could applied to other species as well.
Display remarkable intelligence, that is...after spending all of yesterday discussing various aspects of personhood (from embryos to animals to artificial intelligence) at the Terasem conference, this article is timely in illustrating the evidence accumulating on animal intelligence:
outperform humans in a sophisticated test of visual memory and an amorous male dolphin that likes to say it with flowers -- well, a clump of river weeds to be more precise. These are just some of the recent observations from the field of animal behaviour. They appear to show that there is no limit to the intelligence of animals, but what do we really know about the true cognitive powers of the non-human brain?"
