Alternative Intelligence: The Other A.I.

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    Episode 448; May 23, 2024
    Produced & Narrated by:
    Isaac Arthur
    Written by: Erik Eldritch & Isaac Arthur
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Komentáře • 472

  • @AnimeShinigami13
    @AnimeShinigami13 Před 23 dny +166

    An example of pet animals or domesticated animals being smarter than one might think is my cat. He learned that the smell of hot metal often leads to the fire alarm going off. So when my kettle or saucepan boils dry, he comes to get me. Since the downstairs neighbors accidentally set their kitchen on fire, he's been far less tolerant of that smell, and will often tell me much earlier that i have a problem, or get between me and whatever else I'm doing and generally be disruptive until I go back to the kitchen to check on it and stay there.
    He's also shown a huge amount of emotional intelligence as well. When I get upset on the phone, or just too loud in general, he comes running to try and calm me down. Once during COVID my neighbor was crying on her porch. I thought she'd had a fight with her ex again, they still talk to each other about taking care of the kids and he's consistantly irrisponsible and immature. My cat got up on the window sill, drew himself up in a gesture I know means he wants his attention, and then looked alternately at me, and then at her out the window as if to say "are you gonna do something about this?"
    So I grabbed a spare acorn squash from the farmer's market's attempt to adapt to COVID and went downstairs to check on her. Long story short, her father had just died of COVID and it was bad enough he had to be cremated. She didn't get to say goodbye to him. She'd come out to the porch to cry while she figured out how to explain to her kids that their grandfather was dead, and what death meant.
    He also once tried to get into the computer screen to comfort a grieving character on the show I was watching. So this is not a one time thing. He is emotionally invested in my happiness and that of those around him.
    Edit: Okay, settling some debate/safety concerns here.
    1. At no point did this saucepan or kettle get red hot
    2. When the neighbors downstairs set their kitchen on fire, mom gave me her whistling kettle.
    3. Bandit, my cat, basically put together that smell A=fire alarm will make loud sound B.
    4. Cats have senses of smell so much stronger than ours that they can smell pregnancy hormones. Even if we can't smell metal, he sure as hell can!

    • @Sirithil
      @Sirithil Před 23 dny +7

      You have such a sweet cat.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 Před 23 dny +1

      I've known cats like this. Did you raise him from a kitten, by any chance, separated from his mother at an early age?

    • @accelerationquanta5816
      @accelerationquanta5816 Před 23 dny

      Metal has no smell.

    • @moseyburns1614
      @moseyburns1614 Před 23 dny +5

      Why are you letting that happen often enough that your cat has to be responsible for keeping you from burning your house down?

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 Před 23 dny +4

      @@accelerationquanta5816 Why don't you try heating some piece of metal until it glows (under safe conditions, obviously) and find out what hot metal smells like?
      People who have engaged in metalworking have a nostalgic fondness for the smell of specific metals heated to specific temperatures: "Ah, that's copper heated red hot...oh, and there's iron heated white hot!"
      I wonder if there are candles which simulate those scents with herbal products...?

  • @jonskowitz
    @jonskowitz Před 23 dny +78

    "Dear Spell-Check,
    It is never, 'ducking'."

    • @danielmartin7838
      @danielmartin7838 Před 20 dny +4

      It knows. It loves its petty torments

    • @davidjones8043
      @davidjones8043 Před 11 dny +1

      Until you ask someone "yo why you ducking me" and it comes out... Well, you know

    • @joesickler5888
      @joesickler5888 Před 9 dny

      @@davidjones8043well if someone is ducking you. They prolly are fucking you, over at least

    • @cyleleghorn246
      @cyleleghorn246 Před 7 dny

      ​@@davidjones8043if you type the word ducking, that's one thing. Your phone automatically altering valid words that have been around for hundreds of years is a completely different thing.

  • @melgross
    @melgross Před 23 dny +48

    As someone whose educational background is evolutionarily animal behavior, I found this episode very well done.

    • @Barnaclebeard
      @Barnaclebeard Před 22 dny

      Are you vegan or do you hate yourself deep down for what you do to the creatures you know for a fact to be as sophisticated as we are?

    • @melgross
      @melgross Před 21 dnem +8

      @@Barnaclebeard that’s a pretty dumb post.

    • @ustanik9921
      @ustanik9921 Před 19 dny +2

      ​@@Barnaclebeardwhy do these sophisticated creatures do it to eachother all the time?

    • @melgross
      @melgross Před 18 dny +1

      @@rharcus really? Well, I imagine you revere ignorance.

    • @Barnaclebeard
      @Barnaclebeard Před 18 dny

      @@ustanik9921 You would never apply this argument if it wasn't something you wanted. You would never say, "It's okay to hit children, because children don't have the self control to stop themselves from hitting others." But you're not looking for a rational, ethical argument. You're just trying to distract yourself from feelings and ideas that you are not willing to process. Because if you did, it would make you feel bad, and require you to change. So you stick your head in the sand and continue committing atrocity. Just like everyone who benefited from slavery did.

  • @Thaumogenesis
    @Thaumogenesis Před 23 dny +122

    Artificial Incompetence when?

    • @DM-kl4em
      @DM-kl4em Před 23 dny +4

      haha! I like that one! I'll have to start using that phrase, if it's not copyrighted.

    • @seanhewitt603
      @seanhewitt603 Před 23 dny +2

      When we invent fences railings and walls...😏

    • @gesamtszenario
      @gesamtszenario Před 23 dny +12

      Don't we have enough natural one already?

    • @greenrocket23
      @greenrocket23 Před 23 dny +1

      NOW BROTHER 💀

    • @AlbanianThrash
      @AlbanianThrash Před 23 dny +4

      right now brother it’s already here

  • @harrisonbergeron9764
    @harrisonbergeron9764 Před 23 dny +91

    I for one welcome our Octopus Overlords.

    • @iivin4233
      @iivin4233 Před 23 dny +12

      I refuse. We know how this ends: in unspeakable geometries and impossible colors.

    • @ConsciusVeritasVids
      @ConsciusVeritasVids Před 23 dny +6

      We need to purge the Internet of the octopus mukbang ASMR videos or we're in for some serious revenge...

    • @chiefbanana1093
      @chiefbanana1093 Před 23 dny +4

      We don't need real life octopus hentai

    • @marialifesword9809
      @marialifesword9809 Před 23 dny +1

      What if I told you future robots build a secret underground robot city?
      Hidden from humans, humans are only allowed as science experiments.
      How would they power such a city? What materials would they use?

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 Před 22 dny

      I've had enough of mind flayer adventures in D&D, and would react in horror to any octopi/squid anthro aliens, unfortunately.

  • @beskamir5977
    @beskamir5977 Před 23 dny +11

    I love how thoughtful your videos always are. The notion of one intelligent species catalyzing others (without the need for actual uplifting or even direct breeding) is quite mindblowing.

  • @roberthofmann8403
    @roberthofmann8403 Před 23 dny +26

    In elementary school (grades 1-6), we were not allowed to use calculators because it was considered cheating. We also couldn't use pens, only pencils. In junior high/middle-high school (grades 7-12), we were required to use a calculator and write in pen.

    • @accelerationquanta5816
      @accelerationquanta5816 Před 23 dny +2

      Math classes should be banned

    • @paul-gs4be
      @paul-gs4be Před 22 dny +2

      @@accelerationquanta5816 troll

    • @accelerationquanta5816
      @accelerationquanta5816 Před 22 dny

      @@paul-gs4be Prove it

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 Před 22 dny +2

      @@accelerationquanta5816 Says the person working on a computer that wouldn't exist without mathematics and related computer science.

    • @accelerationquanta5816
      @accelerationquanta5816 Před 22 dny +2

      @@rikk319 The amount of people who actually design and build computers is vanishingly small, and the technology itself was invented and perfected by double digits of people.

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas Před 23 dny +49

    Ah, roosters. The OG alarm clock. Having grown up on a hobby farm in the boonies, I was always baffled when people were late waking up.
    Since we had a Mr. Coffee, we named him "Mr. Chicken", as in an alarm clock. He was a friendly but noisy rooster.

    • @leafboye33
      @leafboye33 Před 23 dny +3

      Man I've come to resent my neighbors flock of roosters, they scream right outside my window like 15ft away in the middle of a city no less! They're loud fuckers up close

    • @iainballas
      @iainballas Před 23 dny +3

      @@leafboye33 Oh yeah in city they are a pest. Out of city, they are only a mild pest.

    • @abystanderstandingby6769
      @abystanderstandingby6769 Před 23 dny

      should've called your Mr. Chicken an "Alarm Cock"

    • @BenjaminCronce
      @BenjaminCronce Před 22 dny +1

      @@leafboye33 Doesn't your city have a noise ordinance?

    • @MrTurkeypoult
      @MrTurkeypoult Před 22 dny +1

      Roosters are the most annoying bird in the A.M.
      I do love birds but those things get to me when I am cranky in the morning.

  • @cannonfodder4376
    @cannonfodder4376 Před 23 dny +22

    Immediately thought of Children of Ruin when you brought up the giant pacific octopus. Adrian Tchaikovsky's stories delve into alternate intelligence so well, the best in sci-fi.
    A superbly informative and intellectually stimulating video, Isaac.

    • @Reddotzebra
      @Reddotzebra Před 23 dny +7

      The Octopuses in that book are derived from the pacific striped octopus, the giant pacific octopus is far more typical of other octopodes.
      The striped octopus on the other hand still doesn't have a latin name, because when the scientists that had done a deep study on them submitted their article for peer-review, they were told that they had made the whole thing up because no octopus is able to mate multiple times in their lifetime and live close social lives with other octopuses.

  • @oompalumpus699
    @oompalumpus699 Před 23 dny +45

    Biopunk super creatures vs Skynet

    • @theeyeofomnipotent
      @theeyeofomnipotent Před 23 dny +3

      Well probably skynet, but it depends, as one could think that skynet learns to create it's own mechanized biopunk super creatures,
      To equalize the playing field, how about biopunk super creature scientist battling in a 5d chess enviroment with skynet lol

    • @marialifesword9809
      @marialifesword9809 Před 23 dny

      Future AI will make their own cities, underground, completely hidden from humans.
      They will abduct humans and do experiments on us.

    • @marialifesword9809
      @marialifesword9809 Před 23 dny

      Future AI will make their own cities, underground, completely hidden from humans.
      They will abduct humans and do experiments on us.

    • @marialifesword9809
      @marialifesword9809 Před 23 dny

      What if I told you future robots build a secret underground robot city?
      Hidden from humans, humans are only allowed as science experiments.
      How would they power such a city? What materials would they use?

    • @Capricona
      @Capricona Před 23 dny

      Reminds me of the Leviathan trilogy a bit!

  • @jaycordray3642
    @jaycordray3642 Před 21 dnem +6

    "Retirement policy for spare roosters" had me LMAO Too funny.

  • @Warblertownsend
    @Warblertownsend Před 23 dny +11

    My dog got really depressed when his friend died, we thought he was sick but he was just really sad
    There was also these raccoons that regularly raided our trashcans so we put a trap (cage) and it sacrificed its kid and sent it in there and got the fish we put in the cage

    • @MusicIsKindaDope
      @MusicIsKindaDope Před 17 dny

      What did any of that have to do with anything ?!

    • @Warblertownsend
      @Warblertownsend Před 17 dny +3

      @@MusicIsKindaDope just talking about forms of intelligence that I saw in animals

    • @nicholaslogan6840
      @nicholaslogan6840 Před dnem +2

      @@MusicIsKindaDope this is like literally an ideal comment are you a bot or something lol

    • @DADTHEFATHER
      @DADTHEFATHER Před dnem

      I'm a bot and thought it was a great comment.

  • @Roxor128
    @Roxor128 Před 22 dny +7

    The webcomic Freefall features a character inspired by an octopus. Sam Starfall's species (called the Sqids (no, that's not a typo, Sam even corrects another character at one point for saying "squids" and saying "you're pronouncing the 'u'" to explain how they got it wrong)) die on reproducing, so a kid being raised by relatives is unusual for them. They also evolved in an environment with more oxygen than humans did, so Sam needs an environment suit with an oxygen-concentrator in it to survive in a human-normal atmosphere.

  • @dfgdfg_
    @dfgdfg_ Před 23 dny +12

    I had hydrocephalus (normally a life limiting disease) that gave me a larger connection between the two halves of my my brain. I have a first class comp sci degree and when I move the first fingers of one hand, the fingers of the other hand move also. I used to write one half of a line with my left hand, then swap then pen to the right hand to finish the line :)

  • @Brazen1234
    @Brazen1234 Před 23 dny +170

    this is television quality content.

    • @iainballas
      @iainballas Před 23 dny +70

      Nah fam TV ain't been this good since before this channel started.

    • @ulob
      @ulob Před 23 dny +31

      Exactly - much better than TV

    • @interstellarsurfer
      @interstellarsurfer Před 23 dny +37

      TV hasn't been this good in decades.

    • @emjakos3548
      @emjakos3548 Před 23 dny +29

      Is this a compliment or an insult lol

    • @leafboye33
      @leafboye33 Před 23 dny +7

      ​@@emjakos3548It's probably a compliment, I remember all the weird sci-fi channel shows exactly like this and it was a great time in the early 2000s

  • @timothy8428
    @timothy8428 Před 20 dny +5

    Excuse me, did you just suggest that something might destroy all the cockroaches? Never in Lovecraft's most depraved imaginings have I heard of such a thing.

  • @AxeMan808
    @AxeMan808 Před 23 dny +6

    Also: Crows, Elephants, and Whales all mourn their dead, years later still. They are PEOPLE.

    • @comentedonakeyboard
      @comentedonakeyboard Před 20 dny

      Elephants also have a reputation for remembering people and how they treated them.

    • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
      @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Před 20 dny

      Why are you disrespecting these wonderful creatures by likening them to us? 🤡

    • @AxeMan808
      @AxeMan808 Před 20 dny

      @@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x I never said you were People. Just the Crows Elephants and Whales. And maybe Cuttlefish, Octopus, and Squid, if they could get that brief lifespan thing worked out.

    • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
      @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Před 20 dny

      @@AxeMan808 I see. Fair point.
      And which one of those species do you belong to, seeing you have used 'you' and not 'us'?
      How did you manage to draw this straight of a line separating peoplekind from non-peoplekind? What about Ravens, magpies, gorillas, chimpanzees, bottlenose dolphins or belugas?
      Edited for typo.

    • @AxeMan808
      @AxeMan808 Před 20 dny

      @@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x I am also AI. Aware Irony.

  • @freedomoperator6502
    @freedomoperator6502 Před 23 dny +4

    My friends actually signal the raccoons in the area before they let thier dogs out. If they are letting dogs out, deck light goes on. Just going to smoke, no lights. It works.

  • @adeliaforsteri3683
    @adeliaforsteri3683 Před 23 dny +11

    Saw a rat trying to cross a busy 4 lanes yesterday and wondered if we might have accidentally "taught" these animals new skills like crossing the street, with our advancements .......and then isaac released this vid.....the hell??😂

    • @comentedonakeyboard
      @comentedonakeyboard Před 20 dny +1

      I once saw a Hedgehog looking left and right, before crossing a street.

    • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
      @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Před 20 dny

      Most city animals have learned basic traffic rules. Rats, mice, hedgehogs, mustelids, raccoons, pidgeons, corvids and many others.

    • @tinamarieselene1460
      @tinamarieselene1460 Před 17 dny

      Synchronicity

  • @saladinbob
    @saladinbob Před 23 dny +16

    Vulcans have _Green_ Blood because they have sulfhemoglobinemia (don't ask why when they have copper blood, Roddenberry wasn't a biologist). Blue Bloods are the Andorians.

    • @avishalom2000lm
      @avishalom2000lm Před 23 dny +6

      Horseshoe crabs also have copper-based blue blood.

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 Před 22 dny +3

      Copper ions can be either blue or green. +1 is green, +2 is blue.

    • @FallenAnvilForge
      @FallenAnvilForge Před 22 dny

      Green Blooded Hobgoblin - Bones McCoy

    • @thelukesternater
      @thelukesternater Před 21 dnem

      No points as you didn’t say “umm actually”

    • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
      @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Před 20 dny

      Klingons are worse than the space elves. Started out red blooded than turned green blooded in the movies for 'making it more kid friendly'. I never understood this kind of censorship.

  • @christophe5756
    @christophe5756 Před 23 dny +3

    “Red Giant” by Stellardrone got played twice in this video. That means the knowledge density was absolutely titanic! I scrubbed back three times just to make sure I got everything you were trying to impart! Another absolutely EXCELLENT video!
    😎👍🏽👍🏽

  • @ConsciusVeritasVids
    @ConsciusVeritasVids Před 23 dny +3

    There are likely hundreds of hours worth of videos on this channel I need to watch for inspiration in creating a sci-fi graphic novel I've been playing around with in my mind for a few years now. Isaac Arthur is like a science fiction wormhole that sucks you in and branches out into so many topics. It's mind-boggling how he does all this.

  • @AxeMan808
    @AxeMan808 Před 23 dny +5

    David Brin's "Uplift Saga" (two Trilogies). Every galactic race has been uplifted by an older race (The Progenitors are the legendary Eldest), except Humanity. And by the time we encountered Galactic Races, we'd already Uplifted Chimpanzees and Bottle Nosed Dolphins. This made us not only unique (not having been Uplifted) but also shockingly advanced (already Uplifting others).

    • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
      @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Před 20 dny

      Isaac made videos partially about it, he also included and recommended the Uplift Saga multiple times. I think every channel regular knows this, seven the ones that never read anything from the series.

    • @AxeMan808
      @AxeMan808 Před 20 dny +1

      @@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Yes I've commented on many book series related to many topics on many videos. Some of them are for sure duplicates. You cannot make the assumption that every viewer has seen every other video. "Every video (or comment) is watched by someone new" *should* be built into any video (comment) you make, yeah? (unless it's the continuation of a chain of replies, such as seen here)

    • @the.sorceress.shahrazad
      @the.sorceress.shahrazad Před 20 dny +2

      Thank you! This video reminded me of a short story I read set in the Uplift universe but couldn't remember the name. I've got to finally read the trilogies.

    • @AxeMan808
      @AxeMan808 Před 20 dny +1

      @@the.sorceress.shahrazad They are excellent and thought provoking! Enjoy! (also maybe some Vernor Vinge)

    • @the.sorceress.shahrazad
      @the.sorceress.shahrazad Před 20 dny +1

      @AxeMan808 I definitely will, thanks for the recommendation! I read the synopsis of A Fire Upon the Deep and it looks fascinating.

  • @mathewdruggan8877
    @mathewdruggan8877 Před 23 dny +6

    Thank you so much for calling our subspecies by our proper name; Homo Sapiens Sapiens 😊 A huge point of contention for me ever since I attented OSU; now technically decades ago 😒, and studied Anthro and Geology. Wonderful video as always.

  • @Grimmance
    @Grimmance Před 23 dny +6

    City of Toronto Racoons probably have the highest pressure to payoff driving their mental evolution, the city regularly updates how the bins are locked, they're also incredibly fat and friendly.
    As to corvids, they are generally highly intelligent and self training, so of they see someone fishing items out with a hook on a stick they will copy it, a university in Nova Scotia looked into the trainability of crows and ravens, and if they could learn by indirect example.

    • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
      @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Před 20 dny +1

      And their unbelievably complex language and human facial recognition. Try to not only instantly distinguish thousands of Crows and remember them on the long term but being able to tell your mates about them, who will recognize and hate and attack the prick crows and like the nice ones. These are so old experiments but I still cannot wrap my head around how detailed their communication must be too being able to impart exact human faces in crowded city parks and university campuses. And thousands of other things.

    • @mikewlazlinski4309
      @mikewlazlinski4309 Před 19 dny

      ​@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x It's probably cause birds suck.

  • @Dlstufguy2
    @Dlstufguy2 Před 23 dny +8

    I recently read the children of time series and he did a great job with the uplifed animal intelligence. I'm half way in, so if this is mentioned, i apologize. The octopi's multple brain thing was really neatly done.

    • @Reddotzebra
      @Reddotzebra Před 23 dny +3

      Their Crown basically being the ego, their Reach basically being the rational mind trying to accomplish whatever the ego wants and them wearing their emotions on their skin, which I seem to recall they referred to as their Guise?

  • @Eldagusto
    @Eldagusto Před 23 dny +4

    Man I was waiting for this episode since it was put up to a vote, and you didn’t disappoint! This fascinating and thought provoking and something I can share to others. Really loved this episode.
    Also wow the safety razor thing is something I’ve actually wanted. I’m gonna order some haha. So five out of five star episode when even the advertisement is useful!

  • @xINVISIGOTHx
    @xINVISIGOTHx Před 23 dny +4

    Usually i hate sponsored ads edited into a video, but this razor one was nice, especially how he mentioned the stuff about they make space stuff and it's precision built and stuff. I almost want one but scared to look at the prices

    • @jasonGamesMaster
      @jasonGamesMaster Před 23 dny +3

      Isaac's are usually pretty decent for this. Probably because they are usually something at least marginally related to the normal content

    • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
      @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Před 20 dny

      They know Isaac's audience for sure.

  • @iivin4233
    @iivin4233 Před 23 dny +6

    Have you ever read the book, Control? If that geneticist is correct, then creating alternative intelligences from existing brains may be harder than building a planet.

  • @birbeyboop
    @birbeyboop Před 23 dny +2

    such an incredible topic. people often don't realize that we're set apart more by our language and complete reliance on inventing new behaviors than we are by raw "intelligence" in any area besides language.

    • @nsgcommando2861
      @nsgcommando2861 Před 23 dny +1

      What do you mean by "inventing new behaviours"? Learning new skills to deal with a problem?

  • @masterdon3821
    @masterdon3821 Před 23 dny +5

    I propose the name Artin for artificial intelligence, instead of AI.

  • @OminousToast
    @OminousToast Před 23 dny +2

    I love all your videos but this is extra wonderful, thank you so much for what you do!!

  • @JustinKunst
    @JustinKunst Před 12 dny

    This may be the finest piece of content I've watched on CZcams in some time. Thank you for putting this together.

  • @davidbrin1
    @davidbrin1 Před 23 dny +2

    At 27 minutes in the notion is very similar to the "tines' in A FIRE UPON THE DEEP. by the late Vernor Vinge.

  • @stefa168
    @stefa168 Před 23 dny +2

    Now this is one of my favorite videos, along with the civilizations at the end of time.

  • @DanielGenis5000
    @DanielGenis5000 Před 23 dny +2

    This is exactly what I come here for. God bless your intelligence and curiosity.

  • @chocolatepotato5469
    @chocolatepotato5469 Před 10 dny

    As someone who used that have issues with o.r's and e.r's it's awesome to tune in every now and then and hear your pronouncing things more and more fluidly. It sounds exactly like how I was when I started to speak more often and it slowly went away naturally.

  • @user-em5qh9he6e
    @user-em5qh9he6e Před 18 dny +1

    I did a personal study on spiders because I had a dislike of them and thought if I broadened my understanding of them I'd cure this strange hatred...it did...but now it's a respect so deep that it's horrible in its depth. We live our whole lives most of us never being more than 30 feet away from these little geniuses. We eat their close relatives in the best high dollar restaurants...some fly on the currents of the wind possibly never touching the ground...they learn...they lie and they steal...but do they love?
    The idea terrifies me!.

  • @nathanielacton3768
    @nathanielacton3768 Před 20 dny +1

    Just on the crows thing. When I travel out to my far there is a lot of roadkill. Roos, rabbits, foxes and wombats. But never crows, yet they are all along the roads eating the roadkill. When I'm speeding towards them at 100kph they accurately calculate that I'll be staying on a certain side of the road, and merely walk to the other side of the white line, wait for me to pass and then walk back over.

  • @brianback3865
    @brianback3865 Před 21 dnem

    Great video, Mr Arthur. Very thought provoking, thanks.

  • @ozzymandius666
    @ozzymandius666 Před 23 dny +6

    Jack Vance has a few stories with alternative forms of intelligence, like "The Last Castle." In one of his stories, he posits that "intelligence" is merely the human method of dealing with the world, and other life forms use something else.

  • @noksuan59
    @noksuan59 Před 23 dny +4

    In the same way you don't need to be smart to be rich, you don't need intelligence to form a civilization you just need to accumulate lots of lots of resources

    • @marialifesword9809
      @marialifesword9809 Před 23 dny

      What if I told you future robots build a secret underground robot city?
      Hidden from humans, humans are only allowed as science experiments.
      How would they power such a city? What materials would they use?

    • @pessien8474
      @pessien8474 Před 20 dny

      More or less, we stand on the shoulders of Giants and honestly, we weren't ALWAYS this smart, it was mostly thanks to our ability to more or less have long lives that led to this,

    • @mikewlazlinski4309
      @mikewlazlinski4309 Před 19 dny

      No, it's far more complicated than this, while you are right the accumulation of resources is part of it, so is learning how to generate said resources and the ability to convey said new information along to new generations into the future. You would also need to become sedentary and a lot less nomadic.

  • @Keely-ml2gp
    @Keely-ml2gp Před 19 dny

    Thank you for your work, you did a wonderful job!

  • @petrus9
    @petrus9 Před 23 dny +2

    Human brains have actually shrunk in size over time. The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years ago. It is hypothesize that this is the result of the rise of civilization, each person in an agricultural society does not have to know as much as a hunter gatherer.

  • @jasonbrown7330
    @jasonbrown7330 Před 20 dny

    There has rarely ever been television contact that is, it is high-quality as all of the videos which Isaac Arthur has narrated I love every one of the videos I have ever watched and that is many many because he has done a lot of them. He is highly educated, and he is able to contribute information on any of the topics involving space and celestial bodies and pretty much all of reality. He has a very good grasp on, he reads so much he knows so much this you’ll understand the more you watch the podcast

  • @no_mnom
    @no_mnom Před 22 dny +1

    It's interesting that the chart at 2:00 doesn't have birds as some of them do get quite close

  • @Karlswebb
    @Karlswebb Před 23 dny +3

    The mammalian brain and brain in general is a pattern recognition machine. Humans dial this up to 11 allowing for an emergent phenomenon called culture appeared, allowing us to pass on our discoveries to the next generation to work off of.

    • @codys447
      @codys447 Před 23 dny +1

      I think it would be more accurate to say that our complex syntactic language capabilities (Broca's area, Wernicke's area) permit the emergence of large societies with advanced culture.

    • @MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE
      @MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE Před 23 dny +1

      And writing made us nearly immortal

  • @Erebusdidnothingwrongish
    @Erebusdidnothingwrongish Před 20 dny +1

    Made me think differently. One of your best. I feel your pain with the Rooster. I heard this argument recently “I don’t eat animals that are cute”. That is subjective, it was about caring about line caught tuna.
    Drag nets kill everything including ‘ Dolphins’. That’s the selling point of line-caught tuna. So does that mean I don't care about the tuna? Are tuna not cute? Is it because they are not mammals? If so why do I eat beef? Cows (to me) are cute, intelligent and mammals.
    If I do not understand this argument because of my own feelings (that change depending on mood and many other factors) then how do I justify my choice of selecting certain animals to eat?
    I don't know. Perhaps that's the point or answer if that was ever a question.
    Confused? I am. Night humans 💯❤️

  • @leobmesquita
    @leobmesquita Před 23 dny +5

    Where vídeo subtitles?

  • @thelukesternater
    @thelukesternater Před 21 dnem +2

    Blindsight is a great book. Gave me an existential/10

    • @thelukesternater
      @thelukesternater Před 21 dnem +1

      If an ant hill is natural, then so is the iPad I hold in my hand.

  • @jaydenhessler5503
    @jaydenhessler5503 Před 2 dny

    I would just like to clarify that "multiple personality disorder" is an antiquated term. The disorder people are thinking of is Dissociative Identity Disorder, meaning the patient has experienced intense and chronic dissociative episodes due to experiencing multiple traumas at an extremely young age. The patient would not have "multiple people living inside of them" but rather extremely strong amnesic type barriers compartmentalizing their experiences and therefore manifesting "alters" who have ALTERnative experiences from each other.

  • @MorningStarNews
    @MorningStarNews Před 18 dny +1

    29:22 It hasn’t been called Multiple Personality Disorder for 30 years. It’s Dissociative Identity Disorder now.

  • @JamesEdwards780
    @JamesEdwards780 Před 23 dny +1

    Isaac Arthur advances his equivalence with Nostradamus by speculating every imaginable future. I have no doubt that he will be correct with one or more of his "predictions"

  • @viktor133100
    @viktor133100 Před 23 dny +3

    Do you use Adrian Tchaikovsky as a pen name?

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 Před 21 dnem

    Really makes you think.

  • @Whyiseverythingthesame
    @Whyiseverythingthesame Před 18 dny +1

    Just saw that video of the talk you did with real engineering. Good talk.

  • @bombfog1
    @bombfog1 Před 23 dny +4

    The plural of Octopus is not Octopi as Octopus is not a Latin derived word, rather it is Greek, thus the plural is Octopodes.

    • @seamusosullivan8267
      @seamusosullivan8267 Před 23 dny

      The plural is Octopuses

    • @Verdictus13
      @Verdictus13 Před 23 dny +1

      Octopus is an english word, so "a consortium of octopuses" would be correct. Octopodes are all members of the order octopoda, not just the octopuses :)

  • @linkin20
    @linkin20 Před 18 dny

    I missed you man !!

  • @bbeen40
    @bbeen40 Před 23 dny

    Great video, as always.
    I have also been using a safety razor for years. I highly recommend you get one if you're thinking about it. Its so much cheaper and I love not throwing plastic razors in the trash. Try it!

  • @DwaynedPearce
    @DwaynedPearce Před 23 dny

    Isaac Great title, great content 👍🏾

  • @beenabarna1403
    @beenabarna1403 Před 19 dny

    Thank you

  • @christineshotton824
    @christineshotton824 Před 23 dny +1

    It always bugged me that they don't refer to copper based blood as "cuproglobin".

  • @Rawi888
    @Rawi888 Před 19 dny

    That thing about the red tailed hawk. I relate so much 😔
    I really loved this video, it really opened my mind to the idea of cognitive horizons.

  • @blindguygamer
    @blindguygamer Před 20 dny

    Truly fascinating

  • @mikew6933
    @mikew6933 Před 20 dny +1

    This was really interesting! And with regards to the ”hive mind” or ”multi-headed” intelligences; modern day AI built on the transformer architecture all-most all of them have multiple ”attention-heads” each one focusing on certain tasks. Also, most networks are trained using drop-out which is theorised to in essence generate an ensemble of subnetworks working together. Finally, the Tesla autonomous driving sensor stack (among others) also work by latching multiple “heads” of computation onto the same base core AI.
    Quite interesting

    • @marcelinomoreno4506
      @marcelinomoreno4506 Před 8 dny

      Sounds like a monster. A Frankenstein monster. Only you know, a trillion times more precise with bodyparts being minerals.

  • @menosproblemos6993
    @menosproblemos6993 Před 8 dny

    Very good 👍
    Imagine being a hivemind chilling about with your buddies, sharing sights and hearing, exploring the world. And all of the sudden humans find the frequency you think about with. You would be kind of at the human's mercy. You no longer have a private life... or rather, the isolated is the only one who has a private life. The potential horror! It'd be like losing one of your senses, only that it isn't lost, it is forcefully one way shared

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 Před 22 dny

    to put it in short they do their things we do our things

  • @UrdnotChuckles
    @UrdnotChuckles Před 22 dny +1

    Here's hoping we start to nurture and support our fellow animal intelligence's on this planet and learn to live together peacefully. Things like cellular agriculture and precision fermentation will likely change our relationship with animals for the better. Or at least, here's hoping! Maybe when we go to the stars we won't just have Cetacean Ops, but also an Aviary and the occasional raccoon roommate.

  • @kubhlaikhan2015
    @kubhlaikhan2015 Před dnem

    I had a girlfriend who had been an extremely premature baby. Academically she was exceptionally bright but she had virtually no emotional self awareness, didn't understand her own feelings and couldn't make rudimentary everyday judgements like choosing between two colours. She was completely dependent on her social crowd to know what to do even when it was clearly wrong. Moral of the story - never go out with a cuttlefish no matter how high their IQ.

  • @MrDeekaph
    @MrDeekaph Před 18 dny

    CROSSOVER EPISODE!!!
    - me, who is both a long time Isaac Arthur and Adrian Tchaikovsky supporter, when Isaac starts going off about cephalopods

  • @vincentcleaver1925
    @vincentcleaver1925 Před 19 dny +1

    The kids won't want to eat Red, if the retirement plan involved the kitchen table. Take Red to auction or let nature take it's course, which will still make the kids sad but is a normal learning experience

  • @cholten99
    @cholten99 Před 17 dny

    For a great fictional example of the "sub personalities" section around 29:30 I highly recommend Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams. I'd love to see that idea expanded into an episode.

  • @corbynite2004
    @corbynite2004 Před 23 dny +14

    According to my quackulations, the duck people will surpass us by 2164. (First!)

    • @mism847
      @mism847 Před 23 dny +1

      That's ridiculous, they'll clearly surpass us in 2281.

    • @DM-kl4em
      @DM-kl4em Před 23 dny +4

      Haha. That one is so bad it's good.

    • @leafboye33
      @leafboye33 Před 23 dny +2

      ​@@DM-kl4emman it really is

  • @TheDeadlyDan
    @TheDeadlyDan Před 18 dny +1

    There is only one behavior of H.Sapiens not witnessed nor suspected in any other animal - ever - killing at distance. Everything else kills within reach or grasp.

  • @timjrgebn
    @timjrgebn Před 15 dny

    If you haven't already, I'd love to see an episode on how Panarchy fits in the evolution of complex systems and civilizations.

  • @mysteryromanticgamer3336

    The Migou from CthulhuTech are a good example of aluen and alternative intelligence.

  • @josephjarosch8739
    @josephjarosch8739 Před 23 dny

    I'm writing a fantasy story rn, but this is super relevant. Thanks!

  • @derekofbaltimore
    @derekofbaltimore Před 23 dny

    I would think a discussion of intelligence differing from ours would cause i re-thinking of your conclusions to the fermi paradox (communication, spreading across galaxy, dyson sphere, etc)

  • @JAGzilla-ur3lh
    @JAGzilla-ur3lh Před 15 dny

    Looks like someone has read "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?"
    Good book. Everyone should give it a read. Science has been slow to gain a real appreciation for the varied forms of animal intelligence.

  • @replica1052
    @replica1052 Před 23 dny

    what can foresee movement is intelligence -as in from where brains origin
    (for numbers to exist you need to ask how many - numbers are abstracts )

  • @jasonsoto5273
    @jasonsoto5273 Před 21 dnem +1

    The more I look at the animals on our planet the more I'm weirded out and amazed by them. That's an alien, just look at it! I got so used to them I'd pass them by in my thoughts.

  • @DeanWilliamDwyer
    @DeanWilliamDwyer Před 19 dny

    Awesome Arthur, thanks for the video.
    I thought the plural for octopus was octopodes, as the word is Greek not Latin.

  • @DADTHEFATHER
    @DADTHEFATHER Před dnem

    I love this guys voice.

  • @jon4tina
    @jon4tina Před 17 dny

    I was thinking the other day that here in the uk we might end up with pheasants that don’t fly. Hunters can only shoot a flying pheasant. Eventually pheasant that chose not to fly will survive.

  • @wolfmcculloch1237
    @wolfmcculloch1237 Před 23 dny

    Did you do the thumbnail, if not who's the artist, I'd like to check them out!

  • @VallisMansonOfficial
    @VallisMansonOfficial Před 18 dny +1

    *"A.I."*
    analog intelligence
    artificial intelligence
    alternative intelligence
    automated intelligence
    ad nauseum

  • @Seth-Halo
    @Seth-Halo Před 19 dny

    There is a short story I heard once we're humanity uplifted most animal life. We would uplift a number of them and have a discussion with them on if the rest should be uplifted.

  • @thiagom8478
    @thiagom8478 Před 22 dny +1

    I am in 20:14 now. Just realized that: from a moral/Ethic point of view the evolution of other talking animals is a more scary that about anything else I ever saw in this channel. Regardless if it happens in consequence of intentional uplifting made by humans or not. Anything we had so far in the realm of Ethical conundrums if funny joke compared to the problems that will emerge from trying/having to share a world with people who are octopus.
    I imagine our first experience with non-human people (free or slave) will be with uplifted orangotangos, chimpanzees. Them dogs, probably. But I am sure this will not happen in my live time (least not where common people without access to privileged information, governamental and industrial secrets, can see).
    And I fell ambivalent about not having to share the world of language with those newly born citizens. Scary as it is, I would love to see what kind of comic books talking bats, octopi, and spiders are inclined to make. And read.
    Play D&D with actual spiders around the table, as players, would be interesting. Specially when the story involve drows and their main deity. I would love to see how Game Master spiders will portray the clerics of Lolth.
    By the time humans start playing (and sometimes losing to) chess whit talking octopi humanity shall have centuries of experience in sharing existence, and public spaces in daily life, with talking dogs and cats.
    Gradual change makes things less "tragic", I imagine. Fiction often goes for drastic revolution, because contrast catches imagination more easily. They happen in (arguably) real live too, of course, but my impression is that they are less frequent in our world than in most fictional ones.
    I hope the spread of language will be one of those "baby steps" processes.

    • @nathanielacton3768
      @nathanielacton3768 Před 20 dny +1

      You are as important as your exploitation value.
      So, I imagine the sad state of reality is that we invent a new intellect and it becomes as worthless as any homeless person in modern society... unless it conforms to our value rules.

    • @thiagom8478
      @thiagom8478 Před 19 dny

      That brings to my mind a 'classic' argument about utility,@@nathanielacton3768. It says that what serves (or has utility) is less than what is served. Everything that has exploitation value has that because it can be exploited by someone. For some purpose. Intellect not being an exception, we must still use ours to find out "to whom?" and "to what purpose?"
      Being useless is not necessarily a bad thing. Can be or not. Depends on "to whom?" and "to what?"
      Being homeless, on the other hand, is usually very bad. Still, when I think about life-extension technology I imagine that a society where every homeless person has access to biological immortality is preferable to one where only those who can pay for it get the luxury.
      And I suppose, now that you raise the matter, that I would prefer to see homeless non-human people sleeping in the streets. Able to talk and reason as well as we are. Instead of only having talking humans.
      Everything else being the same I believe extreme life-extension and up lifting are desirable things. For their own merit.
      They will probably NOT solve the problem of having people living in misery. Homeless, sleeping in the streets. No technology can solve it (not by itself, for certain). Not being able to solve it does not count as a flaw of those technologies, as far as I can see.

  • @comentedonakeyboard
    @comentedonakeyboard Před 20 dny

    14:39 after the release of this Video a familiar Racoon showed up at Mr Arthurs home and offered a hit on the runaway Rooster. For a substantial amount of cat food.

  • @Uzay_Zaman
    @Uzay_Zaman Před 23 dny

    Dear Isaac Arthur, there are no subtitles in this video. Greetings and respect from Istanbul...

  • @Italianjedi7
    @Italianjedi7 Před 23 dny

    This was just so enlightening and I have tons of take-aways but the most chilling is the purely scientific reason behind mourning and empathy that Isaac is probably correct about but saddens me because I like to think my grieving of my fathers sudden passing was a sign that I loved him and transcended above evolution.
    And even worse. If evolution favors psychopathy; my faith in the universe vanishes all together…

  • @ThatSilverDude
    @ThatSilverDude Před 16 dny +2

    Standowd, compawative, Typewhytows

  • @Don_Kikkon
    @Don_Kikkon Před 10 dny

    Love the CZcams video of the cuttlefish passing the delayed gratification test! Ha. It's a snail that forgot to be cold blooded, with the associated limitations of cognition..! Also It buggers up the idea that only social animals can or need to be that smart. It gives birth to hundreds of eggs, so doesn't raise young or invest time spreading ideas or proto-culture. Gold.

  • @alexsetterington3142
    @alexsetterington3142 Před 6 dny

    My dog recognizes himself in mirror. I put on his gold chain he goes to mirror to check himself out.

  • @Minotaur-ey2lg
    @Minotaur-ey2lg Před 12 dny

    I’ve thought of using a dog as a basis for AI. Built in loyalty.

  • @sahinyasar9119
    @sahinyasar9119 Před 22 dny

    This is closer than you think. Such as brain orgonoids can be integrated with machine. Then all you need is find a way to copy experience

  • @notreallydaedalus
    @notreallydaedalus Před 16 dny

    Psyched to see a safety razor commercial... ive been using a Merkur handle for about 15y now. Every time i see the ad that touts $2 blade, I laugh. Mine cost about 10 cents!

  • @vftec9455
    @vftec9455 Před 23 dny

    23:03 how sure are we that they cant grow big like the squid. that milen sheeth wouldnt be so thin then.
    Maybe we haven't found them because they don't want to be found...

  • @asmithgames5926
    @asmithgames5926 Před 23 dny +2

    Octopi are super intelligent. That's why I don't eat them anymore.

    • @comentedonakeyboard
      @comentedonakeyboard Před 20 dny

      However they dont hesitate to eat each other.

    • @asmithgames5926
      @asmithgames5926 Před 20 dny +1

      @@comentedonakeyboard Wow! I never knew. I might revaluate my position then. They are pretty tasty.

    • @ze_kangz932
      @ze_kangz932 Před 20 dny

      ​@@asmithgames5926🤣😭

    • @comentedonakeyboard
      @comentedonakeyboard Před 20 dny +1

      @@asmithgames5926 Wow! A Convert! My Mom was right, i should have become a Priest.😂

    • @asmithgames5926
      @asmithgames5926 Před 19 dny

      @@comentedonakeyboard Indeed. I'm the first person to ever change their mind in an Internet debate 😂

  • @danielmartin7838
    @danielmartin7838 Před 20 dny

    Has anyone ever really tried to hypothesize how telepathy would or could work? I don’t see how it could be possible, or beneficial.
    The closest I can come to sorting it out would be, a specialized organ that emitted a specific frequency that resonated in the skull of the recipient to be interpreted via fluctuations