Beaten by a Chimp!

According to the Japan News Net:

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!

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

Home court advantage.

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.

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.

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

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

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...

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

Clodfobble;427807 wrote:

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 ...

tw wrote:

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 ...

Dude, are you drunk? :drunk:

or maybe a bit stoned?

Uh, what movie?

Planet of the tws.

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

Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

Clodfobble;427961 wrote:

Dude, are you drunk? :drunk:

Ask yourself. I was simply following your logic, using same logic, to its logical conclusion.

Or maybe our posts were being facetious? Your call.