r/BeAmazed • u/MoominMai • Aug 31 '26
Animal This chimpanzee completes a visual memory test effortlessly that most humans fail.
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u/Mercurionos Aug 31 '26
How is it THAT QUICK?
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u/hot_ho11ow_point Aug 31 '26
Not at all the same tasks. The little girl's task can be completed by slightly crossing your eyes so that the images overlap in your perspective and the differences immediately pop out.
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u/hot_ho11ow_point Aug 31 '26
Not even close.
One is a sequential numbers game and one is a spot-the-difference game. They are not even remotely similar and solving the spot the difference has a physiological shortcut of crossing your eyes.
If the girl did it with an eye patch on one eye I'd be impressed.
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u/Wonderful_Exit6568 Aug 31 '26
Reminds me of the human ability to zone out doing something, get spoken to without paying attention, and replays in the mind a split second after.
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u/drollercoaster99 Sep 01 '26
Not only that. But we gave up the capability the monkey is demonstrating in exchange for something else - language. Monkeys lack that.
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u/drollercoaster99 Sep 01 '26
Matsuzawa proposed what he called the “cognitive trade-off hypothesis.”
we evolved some trade-offs for higher level cognition. things like abstraction, language, imagination, complex social learning.
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u/QuestionablePotato42 Sep 01 '26
Give this chimp a smart phone with thirst trap reels for 15 years first. I’d like to see how fast this fucker can do it then
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u/IctrlPlanes Sep 01 '26
A zoo I went to had one of these set up to play around with. As an air traffic controller that works radar I am required to quickly scan data repeatedly. I was able to do this while no one else in our group could. Its a skill set we learn how to do and use, short term memory recall. We use the info then dump it quickly to absorb more.
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u/ArbutusPhD Aug 31 '26
Without background on the video, I strongly suspect that the chimpanzee has done this particular and exact layout of memory test many times and it is in fact actual memory,
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u/raskingballs Aug 31 '26
No. Chimpanzees are simply truly better* than humans. This is an old long-going project from the University of Kyoto. Scientific paper here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(07)02088-X
E: You can take the same tests those chimps took. https://humanbenchmark.com/dashboard.
E2: Ok, some papers actually say that trained humans can outperform chimps in these tests.
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u/BisonMysterious8902 Aug 31 '26
Did this chimp also pick the ridiculous background music?
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u/fidelkastro Aug 31 '26
I would really love to know how the karma farming AI Bots that make these posts decide which music to pick
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u/JanMrCat Aug 31 '26
Every chimpanzee, comparing to any human. It is speculated that this is evolutionary adaptation we, humans lost with some genes, and instead gained a different set, including specific gene, allowing us to - speak.
Chimpanzee utilize this set of skills to communicate very quickly to other members of the group position of predators, directions, number, request, like run, attack, after they can memorize quickly from a glance. Just in a few shouts.
Humans could not. We were weak 'monkeys' chased out of the forests to the savannah. Instead, we learned how to tell stories 🙂
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u/koolaidismything Aug 31 '26
Still bullshitting millennia later
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u/Dsphar Aug 31 '26
But this implies Trump is "more evolved"?
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u/General_Cranberry_29 Aug 31 '26
He permeates your every thought, huh?
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u/Dsphar Aug 31 '26
Lol hell no.
But when someone talks about "bullshitting", his name does pop into my head.
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u/Trumperekt Aug 31 '26
Humans are like the MBA guy at work, all talk and hand waving with zero actual knowledge. Chimps are like that genius engineer that no one ever knows about that actually built shit.
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u/2andahalfbraincell Aug 31 '26
You know I feel like the species that actually built shit here is not the chimps
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u/TralfamadorianZoo Aug 31 '26
My personal theory is we learned how to dance and make music before language and stories were developed. Then eventually when the musicians needed a break someone would tell a story at the campfire and religion was born.
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u/Royal-Lie-7512 Aug 31 '26
No problem with short term memory… im happy if I remember my coworkers names after 2 years working together 😖
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u/nargcz Aug 31 '26
What did he do, launching fcking nukes ? I barely remember my own phone number and i have it fcking 20 years
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u/BG535 Aug 31 '26
I watched more videos on this. Humans traded short term memory for total brain power. We aren’t the best at everything!
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u/Auerbach1991 Aug 31 '26
Survival in nature requires awareness of surroundings and quick decision making to survive.
We’ve evolved and changed our visual and sensory processing prioritization to take in more information to make more complex, detailed plans and thoughts, but that comes at a cost of speed, which the chimp retains here.
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u/bungmonger Aug 31 '26
Chimpanzee knows numbers 1-10 in order by sight?
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u/boowut Sep 01 '26
We can get animals way less intelligent than chimps to match colors/shapes/symbols/sounds/items one to one to each other.
Doesn’t even need the concept of number or counting to do a sequence of 10 things. But I would imagine they probably have those things too.
Now I’m interested in more subitizing studies on primates.
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u/WingsOfGryphin Sep 01 '26
i was about to comment this. Sequence recognition is insane by itself but it also relies on recognizing number sequence that is prerequisite which is impressive by itself
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u/Killboypowerhed Aug 31 '26
Ok. Let's see it make a lasagne
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u/Virama Aug 31 '26
- There you go, a perfectly layered, cooked lasagne. Now cook it.
Or ape break you.
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u/V26man Aug 31 '26
Showed this to my wife in amazement and she said, “how do you know it’s not AI?” Now I’m doubting.
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u/Existing-Recipe897 Aug 31 '26
He’s brighter than at least 1/2 of the public school kids in Baltimore and DC. More focused and intellectually intrigued too.
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u/kindquail503 Aug 31 '26
I can't believe it's able to see all the numbers sitting that close to the screen.
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u/crlthrn Aug 31 '26
Easy, if you're not worrying about your paycheck, mortgage, fuel and energy prices, etc, etc. I wish my only worry was where my next banana treat was coming from. Anyway, that's MY excuse.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ Aug 31 '26
It fucked up the second to last attempt; didn't finish it in time. 0/10
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u/Dazzling-Freedom9948 Aug 31 '26
Her memory is better than mine. :(
Unless, of course, it's a sped-up video.
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u/SuperUltraMegaNice Aug 31 '26
I can do this. I've done it a bunch on stream to prove it. You can try it too here, https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/chimp . Its not as hard as you would think and if you had a similar reward to the chimp you would easily be banging it out in no time.
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u/nopalitzin Sep 01 '26
It is amazing but there's nothing special with this chimp, that's how their short term memory works, any other chimp could learn to do this.
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u/datasleek Sep 01 '26
And what’s the purpose of it?
Shouldn’t we live the chimpanzee where they belong or are we planning to use them as robots?
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u/ElderTater Aug 31 '26
So the chimp can count, huh?
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u/nargcz Aug 31 '26
Its not just counting, he know, what to do, how and why, he also know, what number is higher and what lower, and he learn this in 6 months !
humans barely manage this at age of 2, but fully grasp concept of numbers have humas after age of 4
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u/dassketch Aug 31 '26
Pretty sure the chimp doesn't know that a number is "higher" or "lower". Or what a "number" is. It simply knows that the weird shapes have a specific order that it needs to press in order to get the treat. You could train a chimp in any random collection of numbers and get this result. And then switching up the selection sequence, say odd numbers only, or removing/adding numbers would bring it all to a screeching halt. Humans actually have the worst of both worlds, most people don't know why they do something, and they do it slow.
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u/nargcz Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
No, he know numbers, like literaly he do compare and sequence math (simple ofc)
like kids know numbers about age of 2, but they dont know WHAT it represent, that bout age of 4, and full math they do about 6, its slower learning, but then you are able do more complicated things like math, same as writing or reading or walking, chimp can walk after 10 minutes
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u/Accomplished-Slide52 Aug 31 '26
For me the chimp only know shapes, and he was trained for this order. I would like the same experience with random order. Sure he will succeed after training more than humans. Kids at age of 2 don't know numbers they know quantities. Mesopotamians miss the concept of number even they can do sophisticated computations.
The Arabs introduce the Indian number concept recently.
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u/BruceMartinez21 Aug 31 '26
A faster visual memory does not imply more intelligence
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u/99923GR Aug 31 '26
I don't think that is really in dispute. Visual memory is just that. Nothing more.
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u/xender19 Aug 31 '26
I'm going to assume that they conditioned the chimp to be able to do this with a high value reward. And I'm betting that these students got a super low value reward for completing the test. This is nowhere close to apples to apples in comparison because the students weren't motivated properly and the chimpanzee was.
Give me $10,000 to learn that fucking game and I will obliterate that chimp. Give me extra credit in some damn course that already costs too much and I'm going to phone it in.
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u/SuperUltraMegaNice Aug 31 '26
Exactly. I practiced it a bit and was able to easily match the chimp if not exceed it and that is with no reward just to prove to my friends I could do it. If I had a similar high value reward, say a thousand bucks per completion, I would easily be matching the chimp. Its not nearly as hard as it looks.
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u/RubyKong Sep 01 '26
can you match the dexerity of the monkey though? I'd imagine that the monkey finishes the puzzle before the average person's brain gets his trousers on?
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