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[Foreword by Geoffrey Vance: Although this article is technically co-authored by Jan and me, the vast majority of the technical discussion is Jan’s work. And that’s the point. Lawyers...
Google's own demo for its new chat bot called bard included a basic factual error, and research has shown ai trained to mimic human language picks up our biases. >> just having for profit companies pushing this technology out is a recipe for a multitude of problems. >> reporter: critics worry the race to make money from ai technology is moving too fast. >> i would love to hear ceos saying, look, we've got the research, we're capable of making it, but we're pausing, and we urge others to do so as well instead of just saying, oh, we're going to outrace the other. >> reporter: but with billions a...
Gesturing language. researchers who've spent years observing great apes closely in the wild have recorded a whole gesture dictionary — dozens of signals, expressions and movements that chimps and bonobos use to communicate. by showing videos of these gestures to volunteers, scientists discovered that more than half the time, people are able to understand the message that a wild chimp or bonobo is trying to convey. here's how a chimpanzee says "groom me, please". and this is a bonobo silently demanding food from a companion. some gestures are easier for us to understand than others. this disp...
Recorded a whole gesture dictionary — dozens of signals, expressions and movements that chimps and bonobos use to communicate. by showing videos of these gestures to volunteers, scientists discovered that more than half the time, people are able to understand the message that a wild chimp or bonobo is trying to convey. here's how a chimpanzee says "groom me, please". and this is a bonobo silently demanding food from a companion. some gestures are easier for us to understand than others. this display is apparently flirtation. but the fact that we can derive meaning from these gestures suggest...
To understand than others. this display is apparently flirtation. but the fact that we can derive meaning from these gestures suggest they provided a foundation for our own language. our last common ancestors with bonobos and chimpanzees probably used quite similar gestures. and these gestures may then have gone on to scaffold the evolution of human gesture and human language as we know it now. gorillas, orangutans and other great apes also use some of these same signals. it is something that people who work with these primates tune into every day. gesture is so important to great apes. all of...