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- Ayumu the chimpanzee has made headlines around the world for his ability to beat humans on memory tests, in both speed and accuracy. Does Ayumu's ability force us to reconsider our assumptions about human superiority to other primates? Subscribe: bit.ly/BBCEarthSub
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its not fair humans didnt get candy
The results would be even worse lol
human adult don't respond to candy, they respond to money lol
You get candy when you get it right lol
@@yelfryrodriguez1280 he did once
No that peanuts chimpamzee's like peanuts
you can see that “im better than you” smile
Apes have the right to vote
Kanna
800th like
@Paulo Eusebio where are the animals that are evolving between monkey and human? Lol
@@engineeredtruths8935 they're just saying that we evolved to speak and thus lost the region is our brains (such is the theory as I understand it) which results in such good short term memory of monkeys
Also there are multiple evolutionary steps between monekys and modern humans so that's just plain incorrect
2:45 I love the implication that they went into the wild to literally track down a scientist in his natural habitat.
hahaha yes!
why is this funny
you can found the scientist stick around near it's favorite tree; the Oak
🤣🤣🤣
Well he does look at home in that tree.
When they first showed him solving the puzzle in like 3 seconds my jaw dropped...
i know right its so fucking mindblowings
thats not literally bruh
@@risesleg6461 a jaw dropping can be literal. My jaw literally drops all the time. It’s not like that saying is a hyperbole or metaphor
me too...what I feel wrong is how fast he was tapping...without thinking...insane confidence of not losing...
@Bobb Grimley It was needed as jaw drop is usually figurative speech and my jaw did literally drop, which had never happened to me before in my life.
Well, maybe Chris is a pothead.
ya damn right
Fake Freud Maybe stop smoking weed then...
Fake Freud You won’t be able to in a while then lol
He's probably on something!
It's funny how people think just because "potheads" forget stuff that it corrilates twards intelligence
"They have evolved"
*starts eating wood*
😭
Lol
We do the same like nail biting or pencil biting. Its a habit
Humans have previously used chew sticks for cleaning their teeth. Probably the same thing going on here, you know, since they don't use toothbrushes themselves.
that is what i call critical thinking
I'm more impressed by the fact that they are able to recognize the numbers 1-9 and see them in the same order as we do
you could replace those numbers with random shapes, if they are trained to identify a custom order they absolutely can. they do not understand numbers as numbers tho.
@@brunoqueiroz2759 ahh, that makes sense. thank you!
@@BenjusJamentus A bit late for this but yeah, anything you're capable of sensing has been defined by someone and latter taught to someone else. So numbers are just symbols that've been given avalue and a scale, as the alphabat; Arabic dialects can be seen using our same alphabet mixed with numbers, which could be weird for us, but for Arabic speakers it makes sense since the numbers have other values (or maybe the same as from their language, can't remember).
So pretty much we don't recognise numbers nor anything else because that's what they are, but because that's how they've been defined.
And for the exercise, like mentioned before, the numbers could be replaced and mixed with other shapes and forms but that would make it harder for us hehe.
@@locochoify very interesting, thanks for replying!
Whilst both the people replying are obviously true, you could easily replace the number with shapes and teach the order, I don't think itd be very difficult to teach a chimp which number represented which amount. In fact, I'd bet my left thumb that it's already been done.
I bet chimps would be awesome at video games...
Um, this was a video game.
No chimp will ever beat me at Rocket League
Melinda Green no, no it is not. this a memory test.
Supercoolnata
What do you call Tetris, a packing test?
Call yourself whatever you like. Wikipedia calls Tetris "a tile-matching puzzle video game".
Notice how the guy has so long to look at the numbers and the chimp gets a millisecond. That's amazing
did you even watch the video you@MAD TRICKSTER
Sanpopnoo Bear ikr that’s amazing, they are really smart
The test doesnt start until you press "1" so the chimp didn't get a millisecond to look at it he could have sat all day and looked at it if he wished to, the chimp was just that good at it that it had pressed 1 immediately
My question is if the monkey was better at the numbers or if it simply has photographic memory!
Animals are smarter than we think as well as having better than expected memories. Maybe the benchmark for AI shouldn't be vs Humans but actually AI vs animals
Not only do they seem to know how to recognize numbers in the correct order but being able to memorize them being blank out in literally 0.5 seconds and still get it right is incredible.
The trick is to plan out the motion of your finger, not try to remember where each number is.
@@ummonk that might be the case holy sht
@@ummonk That's still far above the capabilities of your average person.
if you trained a human to do this from birth how good do you think they’d be? this experiment is extremely stupid
@@imamoronand9199its not lol
From the comments here, I learned that humans have the biggest ego in all of the species.
How? All the comments are saying “give Chris a peanut and he’ll get it first time”
@@arnarmagnusson8201 because the are making excuses because a chimp is smarter the A Humen
@@geographymax1835 well give him a nut and he’ll do it every time
@@arnarmagnusson8201 how will that make him do it
A humen
3:07
"They have evolved"
*shows chimpanzee biting corner of wood*
This made my day hahaha
Oh my god i die
lol good comment
I read it right as he said it.
I'm dead lmao
We bite on pencils and random shit all the time so like
After every round, there should be something on the screen that says "You lost to a Chimpanzee!"
what if being humiliated turns him on tho
@@yuckyskunk2021 doesn't change the fact that chimp is superior
that would be racist...
first rule dont let blank person know he is stupid then he start call us yellow skin
2:11 that smirk
He’s like “yeah im smarter then y’all”
Chimps better memory ---> more intelligence ---> getting smarter than humans ---> humans devolving ---> chimps ruling the world ---> Planet of the apes
(Totally not from a movie)
How did they teach them the correct order for the numbers initially?
they had to first teach the monkey numbers as an order of increase and decrease then afterwards they taught the monkey how to use the screen by first putting up maybe 3 numbers and asking him to click the numbers in order and gradually built it into this setup. so the monkey did have prior training but it was necessary for it to even compete. the test emphasizes memory though and the monkey was only taught numbers.
asdfjkl asdfjkl this was 4 years old
@@eeeesyywuwiz2836 no that is the chimp.
It may have been the shape recognition not the understanding of the numbers themselves. But I don't know for sure
@@melissag834 even if it is just them identifying and thinking in symbols we think in symbols as well
Quick question: Am I the only one that doesn't memorize the number's location themselves, and instead memorizes a path that connects them all? For me, it's easier to draw a path in my mind (kind of like connect the dots), then all you have to do is remember the shape of the path, and the end at which it starts. All you have to do at that point is follow the line, it's actually pretty simple.
Cool. I had a relative who had a photographic memory. He could memorize reams of diagrams and top secret blueprints. Perhaps the chimps have that type of memory. I still don't understand how the chimp knows the order of numbers, so perhaps it was doing what you mentioned?
+Claire Bennett
We have better long term memory and many other cognitive tasks, but it seems they have better working memory, perhaps serving a great advantage for them in the wild. They remember the numbers in order almost instantly, like an imprint on their mind, so yes... like photographic memory in some sense. They do have to be "trained" the rules of the game though... as in, playing the numbers in order, by giving them a reward for it... operant conditioning basically... but they already have the memory skills there, when they're in the wild...
i find it difficult to memorize path too..
+Nathaniel Herz-Edinger Thats the strategy they use
+DecreeB
I was just about to comment saying the same thing. It's the way that we think to do it first (which is count 1-9 then try remember where each is) rather than remembering the path. Remembering the path is so, so much simpler. I remember being able to remember the numbers from 1-25 on those brain teaser games, but it was because I was using the path method.
Give the human a £50 note instead of a peanut and I bet their memory would suddenly improve with each attempt
Lmao
Inflation update: I'll take the peanut instead!!
My father way way back when I was a kid having trouble with math, said" think of those numbers like money, and see how many mistakes you make. ""
Reject humanity return to monke
2:12 Sup Bro. you mad?
deedoyday the best comment so far!!!!
u mad white boi?
Wkkw
@@user-rr9ng9bo9l more like you mad human boi?
@@user-rr9ng9bo9l commie
The loss of advances short term memory cognitive abilities in favor of long term memory pattern recognition is an evolutionary leap towards higher intelligence. Short term memory is excellent for split decision survival skills, but in the long run it is humans long term memory cognitive reasoning that increases beyond the survival of here and now. To equate this evolutionary leap to chess it is the difference between being able to plan multiple moves into the future and memorizing the current position of all pieces on the chessboard. In evolutionary survival terms being able to plan moves into the future is far superior.
Sure, but working memory is highly correlated with IQ and general intellectual ability.
How is intelligence, the ability to apply knowledge and skills, anthropomorphism? Greater apes have been observed in the wild to utilize tools.
Because you can't nor should try to attribute human characteristics to animals. Any observations of "human-like intelligence" is anecdotal and not empirical.
Ah yes because our closest living realative is clearly incapable of intelligence as that would be "anthropomorphism".
@@miketemify that is completly wrong - humans and other speccies like chimpazees have ccommon ancestors so evolutionairy research does exactly what you are saying is not appropriate - that is what all scientists mentioned in this video are researching - i think your view on science is a little outdated - anthropodenial is what you are proposing, i suggest you update your information (maybe you already have)
"We volunteered Chris, the director of the program, to demonstrate this test."
You forced Chris into a box with promises of candy and peanuts.
You know it's wrong when they say "we tracked down a scientist"
This guy must be so embarrassed
+Joash Shade ikr lol
You could do the test yourself and share in his embarrassment.
Xander Powell i could remember that lol
TRUTH SEAKER same
TRUTH SEAKER Let's see it.
www.novelgames.com/en/ayumu/
Seems like the wrong species is being held in captivity
Sad though. Us, having the ability to do many things are for one, taking nearly our own kind (Chimps) and putting them through tests. They'd probably do the same to us though.
TNovix they get lots of peanuts for their efforts at least!
TNovix that's the thing. they would do the same to us. as cruel as it seems. We've gained so much information and intelligence by these kinds of tests. It's one of the reasons we are the dominant species.
Your Mexican so you would know
Thats pretty harsh. The United states has the largest Prison Population of any country.
Thumbnail looks like chimps thinking “imma end this mans whole career” haha
oh my god ur so funny
@@yuckyskunk2021 ok
2:10 HE'S SMILING AND HE'S SO CUTE
Why get all defensive about how smart humans are? I think it's amazing how intelligent some animals are. Sure a monkey may be better at remembering, but I'd like to see a monkey play a song from Veil of Maya on the guitar, or cure cancer. Then I would probably put my own intelligence below a monkeys.
Daxis|Back Finally someone who understands
***** That really wasn't the point, he was stating examples to show how Humans are far more advanced than any primate, and that we shouldn't be so defensive about chimps having a 'brain advantage' over us for once.
***** Oh well then nvm :P
+Prismo Wishmaster You mean "any OTHER primate".
+Daxis|Back The average human can't play "Veil of Maya" on the guitar or cure cancer.
It's amazing how defensive humans get about our species...
If you look at the comments, it seems as if lots of people find the concept of non-human intelligence fundamentally repugnant, even if they don't actually know anything about Chimpanzee or Human intelligence to base their opposition on.
Jim Mason wrote a pretty amazing book on this phenomenon, entitled "An Unnatural Order". He explains the many theological and philosophical movements throughout human history that attempted to explain humans' place in relation to other animals, which now presently uphold this idea that humans' self-worth is dependent upon being better than all other animals of this planet. These philosophical ideas, despite their weaknesses, have endured hundreds and thousands of years by many people with ulterior motives and when those ideas are challenged today, many modern humans simply can't bear the idea of admitting that their most recent ancestors were duped by either humans with malicious intents or humans with a lack of knowledge. Instead of just admitting that human superiority is a myth and moving on with reality, they play the role of victim and lash out at nonhuman animals even more.
Merry Machiavelli I guess it's a sense that's humanity has nothing but the mind of being in greatness and being superior and it being brought down is humbling for a species who are believed to be intellectually superior to all other living beings (on earth) and having something less to claim. humans think like this because we aren't that strong were not that fast and now saying we're not the best at something of intelligence. even though it doesn't mean chimps are intellectually Superior to humans but something within the genre I guess hurts
Alksandra Pawluczuk sexist... you mean sexist..
Mostly religious retards who like to think that humans are some sort of special species because a diety made us, and not that we desend from a common ansestor.
Merry Machiavelli I think zoos are fine, but intelligent primates like these in zoos jusy feel wrong.
1:58 Chris fears he's let his species down lmao
I would love to see the next stage of this where the chimp knows it has beaten the human by reading a scoreboard and then observing their reaction and behavior after
haha
Human: Are Chimps more clever than humans?
Also Human: *proceeds to create high technology to test a chimp's IQ level*
Polar Bear well... humans are more based on intelligence than memory, while chimps based on more memory than humans with little intelligence.
Mr Infinify A humans hav better memory because of language
2:48 Is nobody going to talk about the transition with the man in the tree?
Nahhh He just vibin 😎
Fr like wtf
😂 😂
"They have evolved"
2000 years later
- Aren't these humans in cage are wonderful, darling?
Damn, Japans got even the smartest Monkees
"You just can't beat me bro" 2:10
3:06 3:10
Mmm wood so delicious
@@F.B.I Do you really think he's eating it, you're so dumb lol, there's people that like to bite their pencils and stuff
2:11 Look at that smug smile and that condensation in its eyes.
This is the most amazingly designed animal behaviour experiment ever. After several years I am still amazed !!
this is why we should return to monke
then maybe we can finally make a successful crossbreed
Chimps have an amazing short term memory, humans have an amazing long term memory. Simple as that.
Well said Epic Terry. Birds have great long term memory too...also Killer Whales and Elephants
Everyone is a gangsta until the chimps starts giving SATs
rnt monkeys the reason humans can get aids
I'm more intrigued about how the chimp learned the order of 1-9 numbers, how did they manage to teach the chimp that?
Probably with some food giving game as the shown in the video were only making the correct order gives them the recompense. But I'm with you, I was more surprised with that capacity.
They learn from the mistakes they did they probably slowly learn how to do it themselves
I was not expecting that chimp to solve it so quickly. Amazing.
I’m amazed, see how brilliant these animals are. 🙌🏾
"Ayumu gets it right almost everytime, and I only got it right once." I hear the same thing from my friends, minus the name of course. Don't worry Chris, your case isn't as worse.
When I saw the chimp do the test perfectly, I literally laughed so hard my parents looked at me weird.
at first i thought u said
"i laughed so hard my pants looked at me weird"
The fact they knew numbers and there order is already impressive.
Wow, impressive!
At 1:35 the chimp looks like a true slot machine addict, very human indeed
LMAO
Osu! players be like:
3:05
That's the worst case of hemorrhoids I've ever seen!
what's just as impressive as the speed/memory, is that they can learn the numbers and their orders at all. mind blown. what a badass that chimp is
No, learning the numbers and their order is trivial. Humans can do that far better than Chimps. What's truly impressive is that Chimps are clearly superior to human beings in a vector of pure intellect.
2:11 that's so cuuute
I like how he's sitting all smug at 2:12 :)
INSTEAD OF STORMING AREA 51 IMMA STORM THIS PLACE AND GET MYSELF A CHIMP
He’s adorable.. 🥺 omg this is amazing they are so smart!!
Ayumu has a great technique, such a wonderful and smart dude
i lolled at chris' bad memory
Let's see you try, big boy
If you would like to try playing this game, on your Android smartphone/tablet, open Google Play Store and search for "chimpmemorytest".
cool
1:47 he doesn't even need to look at the screen to press the numbers in order
I love how after the first time the chimp did it he had his hand to his side like "Really, this is what we're doing, is this supposed to be a challenge"
They're so smart. Many animals are much smarter than we think. Perhaps even smarter than us in a certain sense.
Yes. In particular areas. We are specialized in understanding language. Which is an incredibly huge area that takes up alot of space in our brain.
this is one of the explanations commonly posited for this result: the language centre of the brain impedes upon the working memory centre
much more likely is that raising a chimp to do a very specific task like this means that unsurprisingly it’s very good at that task, and if you raised a human to do a similar specific task, they’d be as good or better
@@imamoronand9199 Perhaps, but the fact that their best human couldn't win is telling. Maybe with enough practice they could, but also maybe the couldn't. Either way, this is an incredible fact about chimps.
Excellent presentation and documentary !!! There is so much humans can learn from the animals if they would only take the time and interest in learning more about them. :)
Yes. But we seldom will..
Instead of eating them🤣
They been learning for years and you just watched this video.
@@leonardkudrecki8370 I've raised snakes for 60 years and have done snake education for 30 years!Q!
And what do you think this is?
2:49 I always laugh at this idk why 😭
When Humans build a test that proves their less competent than chimps
Have done this test a few times over 2 days. My score is usually around 9, though not 90% of the time.
Nice Youve almost unlocked your inner chimp
Amazing, beautiful creatures
wait so does this mean chimps know numbers?
Amazing video.Good info
For those who are wondering, Chimps have incredible photographic memory so that they can maneuver in jungles without getting lost.
Yeah it makes so much sense. Imagine just connecting the numbers least to greatest or greatest to least, while they are shown, the fact that the chimp did it so fast-it was almost like he did it faster than if he could see them- says that it simply has photographic memory, and if not that, either that or it did some absolutely crazy mathematical computation to recall them. I'd say the number need to be higher, level 11.
His face at 2:11 - 'I'm smarter than you bro'
It takes him about 1 second to memorize it. Amazing!!
This make me happy when I watch it as humans and chimpanzees share same common ancestor.
no they dont
@@krzysztofq7420 yes they do
It's amazing that 1.) The chimp was able to learn the numbers 1-9 and their order in the first place and 2.) That the chimp can do this test almost instantaneously. I think a fair number of people with a reasonable memory can get it right 90% of the time as the chimp does but for me at least, it would take at least 10 seconds to feel confident enough to pass it at that rate. The chimp literally sees the numbers and starts pressing them immediately. I almost want to consider the possibility that the numbers are still visible to the chimp after he presses 1. Something similar like if you stare at an image for a long time then close your eyes, you still see the negative image. Meaning the chimp's eyes actually work a little differently and they still see the numbers after they flash off. Just complete speculation on my part and it's probably wrong but it's really astounding how quickly the chimp presses those numbers
Yes it makes more sense your assumption that suppose that chimps have better cognitive and memory abilities that humans.
Interesting... I wonder what factors pushed them to evolve a good short term memory, I wonder if they also have the ingenuity to match us humans.
bro's determined to make fun of that poor dude
the 339 dislikes are from humans
This is one of my favorite videos on CZcams. I use this video often to show show people that intelligence is hard to define.
It definitely makes sense. They have to have awareness of where their food sources are at and when they're ready to be eaten and they have to memorize their social order and know which one they owe favors to and so on. I would say parrots probably have the same type of memorization skills.
I'm blown up by this little fellow intelligence.
I like how the chimp is like "yeah, I got this" in the thumbnail.
How does the chimp see the entire screen of numbers and process their order at once? Definitely the human is looking at them one at a time, yet the chimp must be looking at them all at once, like an entire field of view, in order for him to take literally one second to remember their order.
They didn’t mention that?!
There are a lot of cuts. I belive they skipped the waiting and showed it just solving it.
I did this test no problem.
@@thegrimreaper9552 You’re a liar
@@MrCWL About the part I beat the test no problem or the the cuts part? Or both?
@@thegrimreaper9552 they video shows the chimpanzee Solving the problem 3 times in a row with no cutscenes...
Both the director and the chimpanzee see the same screen and receive the same information as the 9 symbols are being shown, what makes the difference is the ability of the chimp to react so fast to that data.
the fact that he remembers it quickly shows excellent memory
it shows excellent short term memory but if you could ask a chimp what it ate today it wouldn't know
@@ergerg6080 he would do this @3:10 on your dining table
@@ergerg6080 It would. Their memories are really good. Just not other stuff
The last line, " That's Chimps 1, Humans Nil" Made me laugh like hell 😂😂😂
Chimp is impressive but the fact it took the man 30 attempts to get it is even more impressive.
1:41, the chimp went straight from 1 to 3. After 5 years, did anyone notice that?
I think his other hand did 2
This is just amazing to me. If working memory is so strongly correlated with IQ, what does this say about the IQ of chimps vs ours? I can only assume that their brain size in that area is abnormally large in comparison to ours, like perhaps what they gain in that area they strongly lack in others - just a different brain assembly, neither necessarily being superior (depends on how you measure it I suppose).
Some Japanese guys studied them. You are correct. Humans sacrificed this ability for linguistic processing.
@@mannyx2796 yeah so humans are way smarter then
@@lavalampa2020 idk if they are, a memory like a chimpanzee would mean you would be able to solve problems a lot quicker. You don’t know someone before you fight them, like in the matrix.
I think we have alot to learn from nature because simply just observing is a very important skill which chimpanzees are phenomenal at.
To me chimpanzees are like monks
If you went to the wilderness vs a chimpanzee, it would outperform you in every way. If you have a chimpanzee friend you would never get robbed on the street because it would just go apeshit even if they have a gun.
They are very beautiful creatues
And their parkour is beyond belief
Chimp: getting food and being call smart for remembering better.
Elephants:ok
1:40 the monkey pressed 1 then 3 and it didn't say it was wrong, it just skipped 2. You can see the mouse cursor moves to where the monkey presses next and it stays on 1 then moves directly to 3 so the monkeys head isn't blocking the view they just skipped it.
I remember seeing this on telly a couple of years ago and thought it was nice to see non-humans getting some credit for something - especially where it strayed into the area of brain-power where humans like to think they have no rivals.
Humans don't really have "rivals" though, chimps are not even close to our intelligence.
Sure, they are smarter than most animals but not us.
It all changes when we hold a shotgun. Hahaha. But I love chimps!
if you’d been trained all your life to solve what are basically mini-games, you’d be this good or better
@@corue Didn't you see the video? In this particular subject they are far and away better than us.
this is visual working memory. Humans are good at verbal working memory, which apes probably suck at cuz they didn't evolve to communicate at our level. It makes a ton of sense that they'd be better than us at this test (as long as they learn the order of the numbers) considering their environment demands excellent spatial awareness to keep track of branches and stuff.
An explanation would be that humans have more thoughts that distract them.
An invalid one, yes.
damn that chimp needs a sec to memorize the numbers layout.. thats some memory
This guy Chris either played dumb for the camera or just has a really bad memory. I tried this test myself and if you actually take a minute to memorize the pattern it's really not that hard. But it's impressive that it took the chimp only like a second to remember the pattern.
The ape has demolished his confidence in being a human. Look at the way he is sitting.
2:58 Johan Cruyff is still alive!
fascinating stuff
They are smarter than any politician.
1:39 His hand gesture telling us ''Is that it? How is this meant to be difficult''
That's mindblowing!! Not just the test, but also that the chimp can memorize the symbols of those numbers and the order they should follow - that itself takes humans a LOT of time to do. And notice that the chimp looks at the numbers and INSTANTLY moves to the test, and passes it. 99% of humans could never do that and the 1% are gifted or have very high IQs.
@Austin Schoultz we didn’t evolve from chimps
@@MegaGoon62 technically no but we had the same ancestors so their implications that the chimps kept the ability and we let go of it is true.
Fascinating!
Even more impressive is how fast they memorize it
my idiot friend: they are just locky
Funny ha ha
Still he's wiser than chimp.