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ZenGum

01-27-2008 09:15 AM

Beaten by a Chimp!

According to the Japan News Net:

Quote:

A seven-year old chimp from Japan has shocked everyone by beating the British memory champion in a computer game.

The chimp, named Ayumu, trounced Ben Pridmore at a computer game based on remembering the position of numbers as they appeared on a screen.

In the game, numbers flash up for just one fifth of a second and then hidden by white squares, the participants were required to touch the squares in numerical order.

Ayumu was spot on 90 per cent of the time, while Ben scored a miserable 33 per cent.

The contest was held for Channel Five programme Extraordinary animals, due to be shown on January 29.

"I'd rather not been seen on TV doing worse than a Chimpanzee in a memory test. I'll never live it down," The Sun quoted Ben, as saying.

The chimp's a champ, the chap's a chump!

deadbeater

01-27-2008 06:21 PM

Wow; the chimp must have trained very well for the game.

xoxoxoBruce

01-27-2008 09:27 PM

Home court advantage.

ZenGum

01-27-2008 09:29 PM

As I read it, the contest was for a British show, and so the (Japanese) chimp was playing away. And still kicked the human's hairless ass.

xoxoxoBruce

01-27-2008 09:36 PM

Being a Brit show doesn't mean it was recorded there. Congrats to the chimp, but they were obviously playing a game it was familiar with, as in trained on. That's home court advantage.

tw	01-27-2008 10:15 PM

What some will do for bananas. How many bananas did the researchers get?

Clodfobble

01-28-2008 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Congrats to the chimp, but they were obviously playing a game it was familiar with, as in trained on.

Not to mention, it has the luxury of devoting more of its brain to this one task. A very young kid can remember a positively stupid amount of stuff about literally hundreds of pokemon, because they (and the chimps) don't have to devote so many brain cells to knowing how to drive, and remembering to pay the mortgage, and recognizing the symptoms of an illness, and...

Cicero

01-28-2008 01:31 PM

You guys are getting a little defensive about this huh? You aren't going to let the chimp get to you are you?!? It's a good time to fling poo!
:D

tw	01-28-2008 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 427807)

Not to mention, it has the luxury of devoting more of its brain to this one task. ... they (and the chimps) don't have to devote so many brain cells to knowing how to drive, and remembering to pay the mortgage, and recognizing the symptoms of an illness, and...

Same reasoning: "my computer is running slow so I must erase crap from my disk drive." Many programs erased. Computer still runs slow. Of course. Human, who makes conclusions without first learning how things work, is stumped.

So Onyxcougar asks the above chimp for help. Instead, chimp bares teeth.

I have seen the future. It is defined by "Damn you! Damn you all to hell." Clearly that movie better explains how the brain works. First they win in games. Then ...

Clodfobble

01-28-2008 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by tw

Dude, are you drunk? :drunk:

Aliantha

01-28-2008 10:11 PM

or maybe a bit stoned?

classicman

01-28-2008 10:21 PM

Uh, what movie?

xoxoxoBruce

01-28-2008 10:42 PM

Planet of the tws.

classicman

01-28-2008 10:46 PM

He has been very quiet as of late - hope all is well.

Shawnee123

01-29-2008 09:35 AM

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Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

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