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The article is pretty interesting. My favorite part is the last paragraph: Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connec
by jtdowney 15y ago
The article is pretty interesting. My favorite part is the last paragraph:
Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard.
- corin_ 15y agoI wouldn't use the word "interesting", but like you I did chuckle at that last bit.
- libria 15y agoI find the last bit the most poignant observation there. "Monkeys pounding on the keyboard" has been taken to mean an unintelligent being diligently typing at random. That experiment showed that one monkey probably leaned on the "s" key for a bit and that's it. If we literally meant (generations of) monkeys with indestructible keyboards, it seems more likely that they would evolve intelligence far sooner than they would bang out complete sentences on accident.