Chimpanzees show genuine reasoning and metacognition — the ability to weigh evidence, update beliefs and judge what they do or don’t know — while current AI systems do not. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/09/world/what-chimps-think-of-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #chimpanzees #primates #artificialintelligence #ai #intelligence
Ulrike Hahn
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🐒💭 A psychologist at #Utrecht University tested #chimpanzees at #Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary in five experiments using boxes and hidden food, finding they weigh evidence and change decisions when confronted with contradictory information. The results suggest rational thinking evolved in our primate ancestors and challenges the assumption that reasoned decision-making defines humanity.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/chimps-can-revise-their-beliefs-when-shown-new-evidence-study-finds
#psychology #evolution #primates #science #behavior #research #animals
🐒💭 A psychologist at #Utrecht University tested #chimpanzees at #Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary in five experiments using boxes and hidden food, finding they weigh evidence and change decisions when confronted with contradictory information. The results suggest rational thinking evolved in our primate ancestors and challenges the assumption that reasoned decision-making defines humanity.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/chimps-can-revise-their-beliefs-when-shown-new-evidence-study-finds
#psychology #evolution #primates #science #behavior #research #animals
Alex Akselrod
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Bjørnar (he/him)
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Chris Knight and Camilla Power ask what can we learn from monkeys and apes about resistance to male dominance? Among machiavellian intelligent primates, just being bigger and stronger doesn’t always win. This is not only true with Old World Monkeys who have female kin bonds (eg vervets) but also unrelated female great apes such as bonobos and the highly sex size dimorphic gorillas. Critical features are strategies of ganging together, confusing males on fertility, and ability to say NO! What could that say about gender relations and conflict in our ancestry?
Everybody welcome #UCLAnthropology
#primates #greatapes #females #dominance #resistance #coalitions #evolution #humans #anthropology
Chris Knight and Camilla Power ask what can we learn from monkeys and apes about resistance to male dominance? Among machiavellian intelligent primates, just being bigger and stronger doesn’t always win. This is not only true with Old World Monkeys who have female kin bonds (eg vervets) but also unrelated female great apes such as bonobos and the highly sex size dimorphic gorillas. Critical features are strategies of ganging together, confusing males on fertility, and ability to say NO! What could that say about gender relations and conflict in our ancestry?
Everybody welcome #UCLAnthropology
#primates #greatapes #females #dominance #resistance #coalitions #evolution #humans #anthropology