{"id":758751,"date":"2019-11-10T07:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758751"},"modified":"2019-11-10T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T12:47:27","slug":"robot-vs-animal-rights-why-your-cat-is-lousy-at-chess-yet-way-smarter-than-even-the-most-advanced-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758751","title":{"rendered":"ANIMAL vs. ROBOT RIGHTS: Why your cat is lousy at chess, yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>A cat knows how to walk, run, jump (and land on her feet), hear, see, watch, learn, play, hide, be happy, be sad, be afraid, dream, hunt, eat, fight, flee, reproduce, educate her kittens, and the list is still very long.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CATESBY HOLMES:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;If you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don\u2019t know how to do in artificial intelligence. \u201cBut my cat does nothing all day except sleep, eat and wash herself,\u201d you may think. And yet your cat knows how to walk, run, jump (and land on her feet), hear, see, watch, learn, play, hide, be happy, be sad, be afraid, dream, hunt, eat, fight, flee, reproduce, educate her kittens \u2013 and the list is still very long.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Each of these actions requires processes that are not directly \u201cintelligence\u201d in the most common sense but are related to cognition and animal intelligence. All animals have their own cognition, from the spider that weaves its web to the guide dogs that help people find their way. Some can even communicate with us. Not by speech, of course, but cats and dogs don\u2019t hesitate to use body language and vocalisation \u2013 meowing, barking, wagging their tails \u2013 to get what they want&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Among all these cognitive skills, there are only a handful that we are beginning to know how to reproduce artificially. For example, bipedal locomotion \u2013 walking with two legs&#8230; What about object recognition? Today we know how to create computer algorithms that can do that, don\u2019t we? While it is true that some can now name the content of almost any image, this does not relate to intelligence or cognition&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>When an algorithm \u201crecognises\u201d an object, it doesn\u2019t understand at all \u2013 really, not at all \u2013 the nature of that object. It only proceeds by cross-checking with examples previously presented. This explains why there have been a number of autonomous-car crashes. While roadways are a highly constrained form of the world, they remain visually and functionally complex \u2013 vulnerable users such as pedestrians and cyclists can too easily be overlooked, or one street element mistaken for another. And the consequences of AI\u2019s shortcomings have sometimes been fatal&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-your-cat-is-lousy-at-chess-yet-way-smarter-than-even-the-most-advanced-ai-125581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DHyUYg8X31c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CATESBY HOLMES: &#8216;If you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don\u2019t know how to do in artificial intelligence. \u201cBut my cat does nothing all day except sleep, eat and wash herself,\u201d you may think. 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