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Even if the picture wasn’t obvious AI, it’s not proof of the story being told. What’s being described is so implausible, you would have to be very ignorant and gullible to believe it.
From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I've ever experienced in my life (so FAR...).
It's crazy how 2016 feels like "a couple years ago" right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like "a couple decades ago" ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.
I miss when AI as we presently know it was not yet a thing...
Sadly, I heard all subway dogs got eaten by the alligators in the sewers.
I'd believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn't seem to exist.
Especially with video to show us.
Coyotes are smart.
I've watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.
It's not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?
I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn't even catch a bird.
I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?
Okay, to set the scene:
I'm eating lunch. Sitting at a high top against a big wall of windows, street level. I am all about this fucking salad bar. And gawking out this window, because once it's mixed properly, it all comes out the same color.
A crow flies by.
Lands at the edge of the curb. Claws around the corner.
Waits for the taxi that was already taking the turn, inches from this bird.
Looks upstreet, looks downstreet, jets across both lanes of main road.
I'm not anthropomorphizing shit, crows are fucking Smart. They know cars are dangerous. I wish my fucking dog would figure that out
I live amongst coyotes, and I see them almost every day. What are you taking about? You're asserting a coyote can teach itself to use a crosswalk?
Why? Why would a coyote do this? What is the reward?
You mean dogs can't be taught things?
No.
Is that what the story claimed? That a coyote just pushed a button?
Coyotes are not as trainable as dogs because they didn’t evolve alongside humans for thousands of years.
I dunno. When did the first humans arrive in North America? You're talking like we don't have examples of other animals learning about/from humans in significantly less time than "thousands of years".
But it's cute and I want it to be true! Fuck AI