First Counting Bees, Now Predicting Parrots
March 5, 2020
DarkCyber found amusing the write up “Parrots Can Make Predictions Based on Probabilities” interesting. With the corona virus data widely available, will these poly-nomial avians lend their expertise to global health administrators?
The write up asserts:
They [scientists] discovered the kea, a species of large parrot found in New Zealand, can make inferences and predict events based previous knowledge or experience. They [yep, this is a reference to the parrots] even performed better than chimps in some experiments.
The write up states:
The team said it is the first time this complex cognitive ability has been demonstrated in an animal outside of the great apes, which could help shed light on the “evolutionary history of statistical inference”.
Now is the time to apply parrot intelligence to tough computing problems like the Corona virus research. Polly, do you want a protein predictive output?
Stephen E Arnold, March 5, 2020
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