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Northeastern researchers designing video games for parrots
By adamg on Wed, 03/20/2024 - 11:26am
Northeastern Global News reports Rébecca Kleinberger’s lab, which had earlier discovered parrots love videochatting with other parrots, has been designing games for tablets that parrots can play - with their beaks and tongues.
Their past research has shown that parrots - with their prodigious intelligence, high sociability and singular physical capabilities - are uniquely poised to benefit from touchscreen technology.
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This could be big
AI has no idea whether its scraping human drama or parrot cages.
Could be interesting.
We welcome our new parrot overloards.
The Dominion of the Parrot
began some time ago. One day when she was about a year and a half old, the parrot whom I have served faithfully since she was hatched, proclaimed, loudly, “I am the bird that rules the world!”. She is now approaching her thirty-first year, and repeats this claim regularly to whomever she meets. However the world, except for a few faithful acolytes like myself, has not yet recognized her dominion. Woe unto us if we continue in our blindness.
Never too soon...
Never too soon to prepare for the Parrot Revolution.
I, for one, welcome our new parrot overlords.
Maybe the parrots will use their time and intelligence to figure out how to feed their species.
I hope
They come up with a Fjord Simulator for any Norwegian Blues who are stuck pining
Spokesman for parrots said he was glad no parrots were involved
Of course, this can only lead to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU
Sometimes I regret leaving
Sometimes I regret leaving Boston for my attempt at higher education. I didn't meet anyone who could think 'outside the box' like this in Providence.