Teach monkeys to play games

American scientists have taught a number of baboons and baboons, species that are considered the least intelligent, playing simple game games on computers.

Researchers have mobilized two types of monkeys that are relatively distant from their kinship (Papio hamadryas) and the monkey (Cebus capucinus) and the primate family with a series of studies.

Those monkeys were taught to play simple game games: they had to determine how pixels (pixels), which appeared on the screen, were dense. With the button, they must select the letter S if less squares appear and the letter D is more. If you choose the right monkey, you get a candy.

Papio hamadryas baboons.

Choose wrong, they are not penalized but the game will be stopped for a few seconds, corresponding to the chance of being rewarded with candy. Monkey players are also allowed to choose one more option: they may not choose any answer and press the ' postpone ' key to start the game later. It is worth noting that baboons often reject the answer immediately by pressing this key.

In the presentation of the research results at the American Scientific Development Conference, the authors concluded: baboons knew strategies like those of ' gamers '. And the monkey did not think of such a wise way, so even though he did not know, he kept clicking and finally being rewarded with less candy.

Researchers believe that it is wrong to know how to pull out this primate in the evolutionary process of this primate. Meanwhile, baboons recognize their mistakes to find ways to adjust.

It is clear that that habit becomes one of the key elements to perfecting the nervous system of primates. That's why differentiating them in terms of intelligence and the result is that Homo sapiens are superior to a species with superior intelligence. Thus, the path to wisdom begins from the simplest thing of ' assessing the effects to correct mistakes '.

Such examples are numerous and all say that primates' behavior is quite complex and that changes do not occur immediately in evolution. Experiments on teaching monkeys on computer games also prove they are very curious. Monkeys pouted not wanting to play the next game, but baboons were very excited.

These monkeys do not send the first primates to understand how to use a useful object in life as computers. Many TV viewers who have watched at Atlanta Zoo have two orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) entertained with special computer touch panels and proficient typing.

They capture a number of different games like games for children 3 - 4 years old, find the same drawings or find out how any animal makes a sound when making the corresponding sound.

Other drawing games and orangutans have drawn squares, triangles, rhombs, circles . The people in charge of the zoo say they love to play games and wait for people to bring their computers every day. them.

There are games they learn faster and better than humans. For example, at the Institute of Medical Primatology in Sochi, some golden monkeys (Macaca mulatta) are taught and play very well the game developers have thought of for them: tracking goals run away with complexity divided into 1500 different levels.

Interestingly, on one occasion reporters visited the institute to write articles, a reporter competed with monkeys. He let out a ' gasp ' at the 40th level when a monkey clicked without tired, even he deciphered the algorithm, to go straight to the result, that is to reach 1500. Journalist Losing doesn't feel offended. Even in the narrative, he proposed to set up this monkey a test toy factory.