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give some examples or real insights, otherwise it's difficult to take you seriously

and of everyone else, right? what service or product is only available to the US? Even with Chinese models lagging behind, the difference in capabilities is not much.

did you teach him the words? Mine has learned some just by context (he's still quite young though, barely 2 years old).


Surprisingly, we didn't really teach him most words and it was through context like yours. Teaching him mostly seems to backfire (i.e. "You want me to say that? Well I'm going to refuse to do it!"). The only one we might have taught him was "peek-a-boo", but even that has context, since he'll say it when we cover his head or we try to hide from him. Sometimes he'll hide behind my laptop, poke his head out and say it when he's trying to get my attention.

I guess I did teach him to say "yeah!". It became his alternative to express any excitable emotion instead of screaming. Usually comes with a little head bob at the same time for additional cuteness. He heard the song "Mi Gente" in a commercial once and when they say "yeah yeah yeah", out of nowhere he I hear him respond back with a "yeah!".

The first thing he learned was his name, "Willy", and for the longest time I thought he would just be a Pokemon...forever saying his name with different intonations depending on what he was trying to imply. I think he picked that up within his first year or so. Then he learned a few more. After 6 years he might be up to 12-16 now. Could be more, but he says a lot of gibberish that hasn't formed into words quite yet.

Perhaps my favorite is when he says he's a "good boy" and he just did something bad. Little jerk knows exactly what he's saying, but we love him anyways.

I can't really get him to do tricks yet, other than spinning in a circle. He's highly treat motivated, so anything that results in getting food will usually work if you keep at it. I'm trying to get him to try on a flight harness so we can take him out and about with us more often. He likes people, but he could be more socialized.

Guessing you have a green cheek as well? We have a cinnamon variation. I think they're a bit odd, but that could be GCCs in general as we've only had 1 and a budgie.


> Animals' intelligence have evolved for survival and designing experiments to test those are quite hard.

My conure is extremely intelligent at times, learning a trick at the second try or doing what I ask him immediately. Most of the time, though, he understands but decides to just ignore me.


Relatable. Motivation is crucial for any task and most of time they are not motivated to do what you want.


> If iPads couldn't do anything, why would people buy them consistently?

It seems you're way overestimating how logical people's choices are.


But it's such an overkill. In any case, the question was a bit rhetorical, and highly subjective.


I'd add the pattern matching syntax. it's so natural for a mathematician.


> If they are using a PhD but their competitors are using

god what are these assumptions


More analogy than assumption. And admittedly a poor analogy.


ok, but everything depends on your numbers being correct. 99% improved efficiency seems kind of a way too optimistic prediction.


it seems to me that the problem is quite the opposite. people believe that the "importance of allocation of capital" (good euphemism by the way) is WAY more important that it really is. do we need extra personalized ads in each of our machines? do we need instant financial trades and people optimizing instant transactions? We don't need a sophisticated AI to "inform" the customers.

there is a ton of things that are there simply because at some point people made money out of it, and then lobbied politicians to death to avoid regulation.


>do we need extra personalized ads in each of our machines?

If we want local, small, or niche businesses to exist.

>do we need instant financial trades and people optimizing instant transactions?

If we want people to easily get a fair price when they want to buy or sell something.


we had local, small and noche business before. and even today.

the point again is that nobody says that certain mechanism of the market can have positive effects. the point is that way overestimated. we have extremely complex procedures that cost insanely amounts of money for stuff like ads. we could have a fraction of that power and people would still know about the products they need, etc.


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