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Nick Parker on X: "Bird Uplift Seems Possible" / Twitter

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Chat Bookmarks Articles Profile More Tim Kostolansky @thkostolansky Tweet See new posts Conversation Nick Parker @NickParkerPrint Bird Uplift Seems Possible 9 16 63 5.4K Nowadays everyone wants to build a godhead. I content myself with 3D printers, but if I did want godhood, I think I would buy some birds and tokens instead of a promethean datacenter. I think there's a ripe opportunity to be the progenitor of a new sentient(?) species. Here's a list of the most accomplished English-speaking parrots: Bird Species Training started Peak English Key accomplishment Training method Alex African grey ~1 yr old >100 words; objects, colors, shapes, quantities to ~6 Best-documented case; same/different, zero-like concepts ~30 years in Pepperberg labs; daily Model/Rival training; object rewards; heavy human interaction Griffin African grey Young; age unclear Cognition-focused, less vocab emp

Nowadays everyone wants to build a godhead. I content myself with 3D printers, but if I did want godhood, I think I would buy some birds and tokens instead of a promethean datacenter. I think there's a ripe opportunity to be the progenitor of a new sentient(?) species. Here's a list of the most accomplished English-speaking parrots: These birds all started training in either adolescence or adulthood, and they were immersed in relevant-to-their-interests English conversation for just a few hours per day while being trained. I don't want to minimize the work of these researchers, training a…

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