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Made me think of this video where a parrot is watching YouTube videos it likes, changing to different ones, and seeming angry when ads (or the owner lol) interr
by amatecha 3y ago
Made me think of this video where a parrot is watching YouTube videos it likes, changing to different ones, and seeming angry when ads (or the owner lol) interrupt its video-watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSNhJcKFf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSNhJcKFf4
- cracoucax 3y agoActually much more impressive than the research videos, he clearly knows his way around youtube
- INTPenis 3y agoUntil they make a sudden and illogical change to their design.
- ethbr1 3y agoYouTube UX: "We have this one weird cohort that's responding abnormally to all our UI A/B testing..."
- kibwen 3y agoOnly until enough parrot owners find out about this, at which point parrots overtake the human population of Youtube and the metrics start catering to them.
- 082349872349872 3y ago> and the metrics start catering to them "in order to access this functionality, you must first chew through the charging cable"
- ethbr1 3y agoYouTube optimizing for toddlers and parrots makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it... And that's to say nothing of the parrot ad click farms.
- layer8 3y agoJust wait until the stochastic parrots discover YouTube…
- qohen 3y agoLeading to something a bit like this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU
- riwsky 3y agoParrots are the original stochastic parrot
- yieldcrv 3y ago“Odd that its 50 year old males in Florida”
- crooked-v 3y agoAnd on top of that, can obviously recognize parrots in the video thumbnails.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoIt’s incredible that a 90 second video of someone with a pet parrot and an iPad is more illuminating then the average paper…
- makeitdouble 3y agoThis is truely the magic of the internet. The earnestest researcher can't go survey every parrot in every home all around the world, but parrot owners can casually expose what their own parrots do. Reminds me of the Twitter thread where a mite researcher discovers a new species in a photo posted by an amateur photographer.
- numbers 3y agoWow, so impressive that the parrots knows how to minimize the video and browse for other stuff.
- Loughla 3y agoI don't know if that is sarcastic, but it is legitimately impressive to me. That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. It's sort of astonishing to think about. From both the fact that the parrot can figure it out, and that the function and use of youtube is so intuitive to users that a parrot can learn it.
- MarcoZavala 3y ago[dead]
- Culonavirus 3y ago> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.
- ethbr1 3y ago> Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes. If my math is right, over 70 years a parrot would give 1,227,240 shits about you.
- Swizec 3y ago> making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years Oh that's adorable. I have a parrot and poops aren't even the biggest mess he makes. They love to fling food. And shredding. And throwing everything you hold dear. And even a tiny 120g parrot like mine is strong enough to open cupboards and drawers.
- zvmaz 3y agoIncredible! So much that is fascinating about non-human animals. I can't resist but think that there's a deep similarity between us, and them. One that we even don't suspect. Reminds me of Tom Regan's words: "Animals have a past, a story, a biography. They have histories. Mink and bears, elephants and dolphins, pigs and chickens, cats and dogs: each is a unique somebody, not a disposable something."
- Voultapher 3y agoWe can't prove or disprove that enslaving and exploiting animals is a bad thing. As a society we currently answer that with .. take a look at your supermarket. What if we are wrong?
- yungporko 3y agoof course we're wrong, we can easily prove that enslaving and exploiting them is a bad thing. we know animals are capable of suffering and we know animals do suffer in the conditions we create for them, it's as simple as that.
- Voultapher 3y agoWhy does it matter that they are capable of suffering? This is a serious question. When it comes to morality invariably when you dig down deep enough, all of it is based on human made assumptions. That doesn't invalidate discussions about morality, we just have to be aware that it is built on a subjective foundation. And for the record, I personally suggest a vegan lifestyle, because I believe exploiting animals is morally wrong.
- bdw5204 3y agoI love how the parrot has no patience whatsoever for ads and cable news. If more humans were like that parrot, Youtube would be a much better platform.
- vasco 3y agoI was going to make a joke about PMs at Google looking at product experiment results based on parrot engagement - but I'm not sure their work would change at all actually, and that might be the joke about Google product development.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoAlways weird to me how parrots and crows evolved to be so much smarter than the rest of the birds There is a small park right outside my house and I constantly see crows just clowning around on other birds. I’ve seen them harass eagles just for fun and casually take food from pigeons.
- xattt 3y agoWas this the form of intellectual superiority that Homo sapiens flaunted when they were among “dumber” apes?
- 12907835202 3y agoHasn't the idea that homo sapiens were more intelligent been debunked in favour of the idea that they were more social and that's what gave them superiority
- vanderZwan 3y agoI don't know, but I suspect you mean compared to other hominids, while GP had non-hominids like chimpanzees and gorillas in mind, so I just wanted to make sure that that potential confusion is cleared up first.
- philistine 3y agoRemember, our predecessors did not pal around with apes. They paled around with the ancestors of apes.
- vanderZwan 3y agoNo, see, this is exactly the type of misunderstanding I wanted to clear up: there is an entire lineage of different hominids that came after the split with chimpanzees. If we consider gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees apes, then all of the hominids are apes. And all of those hominids either went fully extinct, or interbred with early homo sapiens to leave some living traces of their DNA with us, and then went extinct. So "our predecessors" isn't specific enough. One might mean our pre-ape ancestors, like you do, or the subgroup of apes that is hominids.
- leokennis 3y agoBuy this parrot YouTube Premium! I don't know the exact species of parrot this is, but if it has a lifespan of 25 years, a 1 minute ad is like a 4 minute ad for them. Just imagine sitting through that!
- xandrius 3y agoAdblock would do the same without supporting these nefarious monetization techniques.
- theCodeStig 3y agoIt's an Indian ringneck parakeet (aviculture name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-ringed_parakeet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-ringed_parakeet
- sph 3y agoI envision a world where we discover that some of our pets enjoy tech like us, but we try our hardest not to brainwash them with ads for humans. In this world, some of us humans try to fail Turing tests on purpose to get access to ad-free tech designed for pets. Yes, Google, I am a parrot, why?
- nabakin 3y agoThe original video https://www.instagram.com/insta.beakk/reel/CtIzWvDgWzX/ https://www.instagram.com/insta.beakk/reel/CtIzWvDgWzX/ and there are more of him
- amatecha 3y agoThank you! I've been trying for ages to find where this video was ripped from (as the link I found was very obviously not the original source)!