Can African Grey parrots truly understand language?I want to believe, even if some of them were scams, that they truly can.
>>4906430no they're just relatively good at mimicking our speech.
>>4906442I've been watching a YouTube channel where they teach one to recognize objects, colors, materials and even number of fingers held up. They ask him a question about an object and he has to respond in the right category and with the right answer.Is that not quality as, if not language, some sort of rough approximation?
>>4906453you will find this interestinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wFotDKEF4
>>4906466Thanks, I'll have to watch this tomorrowThis is an example of what I was referring to. This couple has been training their parrot for at least a year or two now.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CvMSl3NDYJ0
>>4906430They can certainly understand both single words and multiple words in context, like recognising the names of colours and applying them to different objects or vice versa. An African grey was supposedly the only animal to ever truly ask a question and understand the answer
>>4906430Mine tells me goodnight when he wants to get back in his cage for sleep and we will also say "see you later" when I go into the house entry where the front door is. They most certainly understand words and their associations and combine words to then combine associations. But it is very much in a dog like fashion, the difference is that they have the vocal tracts to make it a two way system as aposed to just a one way system with body language interpretation.
>>4906430Parrots are smarter than cats or dogs
>>4908264Yes. But they’re birds so they don’t have real souls. Only mammals actually need to he self aware to think. Birds are living chatGPT instances. It’s more efficient than being conscious. Hence, the flying into windows thing that any conscious being would never do>a hole in a building? no i will not rush into it without checking it out
>>4908274to he fair, small/dumb dogs (like yorkies and bulldogs) and very young dogs sometimes run into glass doors, and cats do all the time, but they have an excuse and parrots and crows are meant to be chimp smart. ive never heard of an adult "real dog" (ie husky malinois border collie) running into glass. They just lick windows instead.
>>4908274This is cope.
>>4906430They can be trained to understand words but I would not call it understanding a language
Shrok
>>4908274You are an absolute moron.
>>4908502took birdGPT a while to peck out a comeback huh>can see uv>windows reflect or absorb uv>fly into what should look like a fucking wall or a frozen waterfall from a distancebird.exe has encountered an exception
>>4906430Apollo (the one most are familiar with nowadays) is clearly capable of rationalizing concepts and how they interplay. Recognizing things that you've been provided information for is one thing, synthesizing those words together or in novel contexts is another.>"pour water" when it's raining outside>"it's a bug" "that's..." when seeing a lizard>claiming that ceramics are glass when we would call them rock, and then insisting that it's glass after hitting his beak against it again, where the handlers actually agree because it makes more sense that he would perceive it as glass after that>requesting things like "fresh water" and then getting a drink because... he just asked for some water because he was thirsty>making himself more clear to strangers by enunciating his words more properly and speaking slower
