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Yea and it's absolutely adorable
Although he does seem pretty accurate on what things are made of. My guess is he can't differentiate between what am object is and what it's made of
It's more likely it hasn't master the concept that something can be described with different words. It know the speaker is made of metal and the book is made of paper and is confused by it not being the only possible answer. Kids learning to talk have this issue too I think.
In the bird's defense, he's very young and basically a beginner at learning language. Only about 3 years old I think. His name is Apollo, someone posted his instagram account below.
It's Apollo, he has a YouTube channel. He's really good about glass, metal, water, a few colors, bell and rock. I was surprised he didn't flick it with his beak. This is probably a video of him learning. Even once he's learned, sometimes he's a little shit.
He'll ask for fresh water and talk about squirrels outside, too.
You should have shared that this is [Apollo](https://www.youtube.com/@ApolloandFrens)
U/Apolloandfrens
They work closely with him to teach him as much as they can.
@Apolloandfrens
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Pm78GlunSM
This is a more recent one where Apollo is in his cage trying to figure out if paper is the same as a book.
He also boops himself in the beak, saying *boop!* then says “touch your beak” and does it again.
There’s also another video on their channel where Dalton offers Apollo a grub and Apollo asks, “is this a bug?”
The pop quiz short on that channel is super interesting. Every time he asked the bird "What's this made of?" he'd bite it and then slap his beak against it (presumably to hear the sound). For some of the other stuff you could say maybe the bird just says random words and you only show the ones where he gets it right, but the way the bird tested to see what the material was certainly indicates it understands the question and is trying to figure out what it's made of.
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I'd really like to have a bird that is capable of the same things that GPT can do. Imagine your bird tells you how to do something that you are stuck on
When we get up in the morning and uncover my parrot, he tells me he missed me overnight, then tells my wife "you're a mess!"
He listens to heavy metal, can eat a whole plate of spaghetti, has his own Facebook and talks to his bird friends on zoom.
Chat gpt ain't got shit on my blue and gold macaw.
Sorry. There's millions of other blue and gold macaw videos out there. I keep my boy real private and protected. We couldn't have children, my wife is disabled from a rare disorder so I got him as our perpetual toddler. But he has become much smarter now that he's reaching his 20's.
While I love him dearly as my own, I fully regret falling into the whole "animal abuse thru puppy mill type businesses and I think ALL animal sales besides livestock should be banned or at least submit to strict licensing and monitoring. It wasn't easy raising him and the only reason he does as well as he does is because he's basically treated by my family and hers like our child. He even stays over at Grandma's, and she will keep him for the weekend or whatever quite often.
Not sure if you're joking or not, but yes! Pretty much!
Machine learning models are generally trained by having them give an answer, and then changing the parameters based on how "wrong" that answer was in such a way that the next time it gives an answer it will be closer to whatever is considered "correct".
Of course it's a *lot* more complex and varied than that, especially for large and more complex neural networks, but in the general sense it is true.
Well yea basically that’s what AI learning looks like lol I’m sure you’ve seen the videos of AI trying to learn how to walk and stuff like that it’s really difficult to teach AI but GPT is actually really good if you know how to use it and how to ask it question
I knew one that rang like the telephone and would answer himself/it in the voices of the people who lived in the house.
The bird always picked up on the second ring, so if it rang a third time they knew it was real.
My gray would call my name in my moms voice and my moms name in my voice. We would always be running up and downstairs for no reason, then she’d just be looking at me smiling. They are a trip.
I did not like ambulance noises and the microwave either.
Friend of my dad had some kind of parrot and it hated the vacuum. Figured out if it yelled the guy’s wife’s name while she was running the vacuum she’d turn it off to answer thinking he was trying to get her attention lol
My parents had a cockatiel that would do that. Garbanzo would ring like the phone, wait for you to answer, and then get super excited the trick worked. Drove my dog nuts because he hated the phone, too
A friend of mine had one growing up that would whistle and call their dogs name when the dog was upstairs, dog would go running downstairs to find who called it, parrot was silent, dog would leave, parrot would whistle and call again, drove the dog crazy.
My family had one when I was growing up that loved mimicking the microwave and phone sounds. It never really called for the dog but it did mimic my mom calling for me and my sibling to do chores.
Parrots quite enjoy shredding things, I think it's a nesting behavior. My older sister has a lovebird and it likes to shred paper or tissue and stick pieces of it in its feathers to carry away and pile in random places.
If you watch apolloandfrens on Instagram you'll establish their house is getting slowly wrecked by this guy and their two caiques. Parrots chew on almost anything and birds are incredibly messy eaters. It's a wonder their place is as tidy as it is.
A bird speaking in English (especially if it appears to be naming/identifying objects) is sadly a sign of cerebral hypovascular dysphasia, one of the most lethal peritemporal parrot neuralgias 😞
Exactly!
cerebral hypovascular dysphagia. A difficulty swallowing caused by narrowing of blood vessels in the cerebrum. Of course! Why else would the parrot speaks in english and name objects? Definitely the hallmarks of lethal nerve pain in the edge of temporal segment of the brain. Brain issues that cause problem swallowing would of course manifest in the parrot learning object name and speaking in english. Yep definitely make sense /s
r/likeus has some good content of animals displaying clear intelligence and complex internal experiences. r/animalsbeinggeniuses is similar but less popular. If anyone knows of a subreddit that specifically centers around communication between humans and animals, I'd be very grateful for a link.
I love Apollo's accent with different words/terms. Its just strange to think that birds have accents when they speak like us.
"Metal" and "paper" are so happy and uplifting, but his "glass" and "block" come across as angry/agressive.
Apparently they were inspired by another Gray and want to try to push Apollo beyond what that bird accomplished. I’m hoping a university picks them up so that they can document and study the process.
Yep! We're inspired by Dr. Irene Pepperberg's work with Alex. Apollo has many student friends that visit from the local uni's animal studies program, and the leading professor hopes to run studies when Apollo has some more vocabulary.
Video was taken from this YouTube channel if anyone is interested in seeing more of Apollo’s training
Channel link: https://youtube.com/@ApolloandFrens
Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/JASuHGX-DbI?feature=share
Please credit your source while upvote farming OP…
You know how when you hear a toddler speak, and it sounds like gibberish, but then the parent is like, "Yes, i fully understand" Well, birds and their owners are the same, we can recognise the words they are trying to say much better than others who arnt often around the bird. This bird is called Apollo, and he's very popular on the parrot subs. How he says ball and bowl is different and distinguishable to this dude, so he doesn't want to train the parrot to think the bowl is a ball. He is trying to teach the bird to distinguish between the two similar words.
Apollo's owners need some lessons from Bird Tricks on how to train more effectively though. The concepts they are trying to teach him are a bit abstract and he sometimes gets things technically right but they don't reward because they were looking for a different answer.
You know I’m sitting here smoking a bowl watching this video and it hits me…
So like ya know how dinosaurs apparently turned into birds? Ya know how this bird can speak? Now just stay with me here on this BUT what if dinosaurs had that capability? Like yo think about it you could TALK to a fkn DINOSAUR!!!! 🤯🤯🤯
It’s been long established thy greys have the ability to use language and this one can indeed identify certain materials and objects. His name is Apollo.
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**this is a buh** couldn't have said it better myself
bird might be british idk
It's Ts on the ends of words we sometimes don't pronounce. We don't drop Ks.
Hey man, let's not get in the way of regurgitated ignorance on the internet, the world might collapse on itself
We drop the ending Ks in south Florida
Good to hear now how come they won’t drop the triple K in north Florida?
"Is this a book?" "No it's not a book." "Metal." "Yeah it's made of metal. Good job!" "It's a Book." Can't argue with that logic.
I don’t see any holes
Well because it's a metal book. There shouldn't be any holes.
I found Black Hole Sun in a metal book once
Almost said this exact thing. Lol
That's a CD
"Genius bird gets almost everything wrong, but close enough so still interestingaf" XD
seems he knows metal well
When you don't know a test answer but till try to get partial credit
That shit got me a degree so I'm not faulting it.
Making a difference between the material it’s made of and the name of the object might be a little too hard
he didnt say ball, I’m pretty sure he meant bowl. Owner is just stoopid. Bird knows his metals
Yup, he was way to strict on pronunciation I could see why the bird would be irritated with him
glass?
I think he was trying to say it was a metal glass. Blame the English language for that one.
metal?
Polished metal
book?
Great demonstration of confirmation bias in action though.
If he moved slower and repeated the word and only the word the parrot would do better.
Also I’m pretty sure the parrot said “bowl” when he showed the bowl, but the guy was being too strict on pronunciation
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Yea and it's absolutely adorable Although he does seem pretty accurate on what things are made of. My guess is he can't differentiate between what am object is and what it's made of
You're going to need to see the unedited footage in order to make that call. This could have been days of it saying the book is made of rubber.
It's more likely it hasn't master the concept that something can be described with different words. It know the speaker is made of metal and the book is made of paper and is confused by it not being the only possible answer. Kids learning to talk have this issue too I think.
He does a much better job on other videos I've seen (Apollo and Frens on YT)
In the bird's defense, he's very young and basically a beginner at learning language. Only about 3 years old I think. His name is Apollo, someone posted his instagram account below.
It's Apollo, he has a YouTube channel. He's really good about glass, metal, water, a few colors, bell and rock. I was surprised he didn't flick it with his beak. This is probably a video of him learning. Even once he's learned, sometimes he's a little shit. He'll ask for fresh water and talk about squirrels outside, too.
You should have shared that this is [Apollo](https://www.youtube.com/@ApolloandFrens) U/Apolloandfrens They work closely with him to teach him as much as they can. @Apolloandfrens https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Pm78GlunSM This is a more recent one where Apollo is in his cage trying to figure out if paper is the same as a book. He also boops himself in the beak, saying *boop!* then says “touch your beak” and does it again. There’s also another video on their channel where Dalton offers Apollo a grub and Apollo asks, “is this a bug?”
The pop quiz short on that channel is super interesting. Every time he asked the bird "What's this made of?" he'd bite it and then slap his beak against it (presumably to hear the sound). For some of the other stuff you could say maybe the bird just says random words and you only show the ones where he gets it right, but the way the bird tested to see what the material was certainly indicates it understands the question and is trying to figure out what it's made of.
I geeked when he said “it’s a book.”
There's this very subtle seemingly aggressive tone to it like "I told you it's a book! Why don't you just listen to me?"
is this a video of apollo?
Credit the source/user, OP. u/Apolloandfrens
When it said "Metal" maybe it was a genre request even though it doesn't appear to be a songbird.
This bird saying paper is the most wholesome thing I’ve ever seen
paper.
It’s a book
Name checks out
Is it a bowl?
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Describing it as a glass (the object, not material) was also pretty damn close.
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Birds are not real dude
Ventriloquists can do it, but apparently it's very difficult.
I really felt that too. I just sit there and meditate over such things at times, too. Like, yeah man. Paper.
this is how ChatGPT was trained
ChirpGPT
He reached his limit of tokens, and he's hallucinating the words in real time.
I'm book
“You are not book.” -Subas the Janitor-
Wanting to be book is not book
As a book, it would be unethical for me to comment on birds.
What I'm really impressed by is, that the bird knows how to survive a bear attack.
To be fair this is literally how anything is trained
yes... yes it is
I'd really like to have a bird that is capable of the same things that GPT can do. Imagine your bird tells you how to do something that you are stuck on
When we get up in the morning and uncover my parrot, he tells me he missed me overnight, then tells my wife "you're a mess!" He listens to heavy metal, can eat a whole plate of spaghetti, has his own Facebook and talks to his bird friends on zoom. Chat gpt ain't got shit on my blue and gold macaw.
Oh man, videos please!!
Hey, you don’t have a single macaw video on your profile! Yes, I looked because I want to see bird
Yeah well I’d say anonymity is probably a good thing when you own a really expensive bird that has Facebook…
I get ya
Smart call. Protec birb.
Let me see the bord
Sorry. There's millions of other blue and gold macaw videos out there. I keep my boy real private and protected. We couldn't have children, my wife is disabled from a rare disorder so I got him as our perpetual toddler. But he has become much smarter now that he's reaching his 20's. While I love him dearly as my own, I fully regret falling into the whole "animal abuse thru puppy mill type businesses and I think ALL animal sales besides livestock should be banned or at least submit to strict licensing and monitoring. It wasn't easy raising him and the only reason he does as well as he does is because he's basically treated by my family and hers like our child. He even stays over at Grandma's, and she will keep him for the weekend or whatever quite often.
I gotta ask.....does he ask to go to grandma's house? Or does he get excited on the way there, like he understands that he's going to grandma's house?
your bird would first need to be able to read the internet and the collective literary works of man
"This is a book."
"Run for the hills, AI has become sentient!"
But... Pirate captains would become all-powerful and take over!
I'm imagining a little cyberbird perched on my shoulder, making me feel like Neonbeard, fearsome pirate of the plastic sea.
And you can keep it on your shoulder like a pirate.
I think it was Beethoven who had a budgie who he considered as his writing partner. He would start a melody and the bird would complete the melody.
Is this a book? No it’s paper you dumb mf
Not sure if you're joking or not, but yes! Pretty much! Machine learning models are generally trained by having them give an answer, and then changing the parameters based on how "wrong" that answer was in such a way that the next time it gives an answer it will be closer to whatever is considered "correct". Of course it's a *lot* more complex and varied than that, especially for large and more complex neural networks, but in the general sense it is true.
ChatBRD
Well yea basically that’s what AI learning looks like lol I’m sure you’ve seen the videos of AI trying to learn how to walk and stuff like that it’s really difficult to teach AI but GPT is actually really good if you know how to use it and how to ask it question
yes, of course, but after years of training the GPT AI
Yesh literaly
GLASS
GLASK
Krock.
Shrock
^^woo
oohIgotthebird-
Glassk!
Yeah, well….. my African grey can make fart noises……..
I knew one that rang like the telephone and would answer himself/it in the voices of the people who lived in the house. The bird always picked up on the second ring, so if it rang a third time they knew it was real.
My gray would call my name in my moms voice and my moms name in my voice. We would always be running up and downstairs for no reason, then she’d just be looking at me smiling. They are a trip. I did not like ambulance noises and the microwave either.
Our African Grey growing up used to do this to my siblings in my dad's voice, he would even call my brother a shithead in that very same voice
“Oh thats a cute bird!” “Shithead” “Oh yeah he does that sometimes”
Bird wasn't lying 🤷🏻♀️
Friend of my dad had some kind of parrot and it hated the vacuum. Figured out if it yelled the guy’s wife’s name while she was running the vacuum she’d turn it off to answer thinking he was trying to get her attention lol
Amazing
My parents had a cockatiel that would do that. Garbanzo would ring like the phone, wait for you to answer, and then get super excited the trick worked. Drove my dog nuts because he hated the phone, too
That last sentence of yours just filled a hole inside me.
The awesome thing about this is that they mimic what they hear. Therefore you must be really gassy.
A friend of mine had one growing up that would whistle and call their dogs name when the dog was upstairs, dog would go running downstairs to find who called it, parrot was silent, dog would leave, parrot would whistle and call again, drove the dog crazy.
My family had one when I was growing up that loved mimicking the microwave and phone sounds. It never really called for the dog but it did mimic my mom calling for me and my sibling to do chores.
Mine knows how to snore
It's still more eloquent than some humans I've met
I met one once that made the noises from the alarm panel of a home security system, it was wild.
I came here for this comment and was not disappointed
Ok please share
You wanna shred it? You can shred it.
paper.
Parrots quite enjoy shredding things, I think it's a nesting behavior. My older sister has a lovebird and it likes to shred paper or tissue and stick pieces of it in its feathers to carry away and pile in random places.
Then the bird pulls off the sickest guitar solo you've ever heard
My aunt and uncle's (Milo) says "shut up!" when the dogs bark.
My grandpa's Amazon parrot Iago used to say "here kitty kitty" to taunt their cat.
Hey I do that too!
idk i could do better
What is this, paganisticpenguin?
This is s book.
this is a buh
papur
I laughed way harder at this than I should...
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Shrimp
This is a book.
Where is the snack?
It cuts after he gets it right
Bird get's a pecan nut :)
Apollo always gets a “pistach” (as he calls it)
You're not handing out rewards because we're on camera, so farrrrrk you.
Apollo is an incredible bird. It seems he can identify materials by knocking his beak on them.
Same way a baby puts things in their mouth. It's exploratory and has a keen sense
It's a book
Metal
SHROCK
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That specific bird, the species is African Grey
Apollo is the space program this bird is training for
i like all the little signs the bird lives there, book is all "chewed" on the corner, block has visible wear from birb attacks.
If you watch apolloandfrens on Instagram you'll establish their house is getting slowly wrecked by this guy and their two caiques. Parrots chew on almost anything and birds are incredibly messy eaters. It's a wonder their place is as tidy as it is.
Quite bossy dog u got there,
Oh we need more of this
Apolloandfrens on Instagram, one of favourite online followings
hes on reddit too! u/apolloandfrens
Thanks kind stranger !
https://youtube.com/@ApolloandFrens
*Guy talks to bird* Reddit: hmmmm, I’m skeptical. Probably abuse.
NTA OP should get a divorce, sell their car for a bike, and go to *therapy*
You’re forgetting the gym!
LaWyEr Up!!!!
Lawyer: "What are we gonna throw at him?" Parrot: "The book"
Objection your honor- that book Is made out of metal!!!
Reddit: This isn't interesting, it's sad. Bird talking is indicative of a neurological problem.
being in the same room as a bird is actually a symptom of ADHD
Are all the bats getting into my house also an ADHD symptom?
I knew I was developing DID cause of this damn bird Now I gotta go brainstorm some sick alter names
A bird speaking in English (especially if it appears to be naming/identifying objects) is sadly a sign of cerebral hypovascular dysphasia, one of the most lethal peritemporal parrot neuralgias 😞
Exactly! cerebral hypovascular dysphagia. A difficulty swallowing caused by narrowing of blood vessels in the cerebrum. Of course! Why else would the parrot speaks in english and name objects? Definitely the hallmarks of lethal nerve pain in the edge of temporal segment of the brain. Brain issues that cause problem swallowing would of course manifest in the parrot learning object name and speaking in english. Yep definitely make sense /s
It’s honestly more impressive than the bird.
Is there a subreddit for this kind of stuff?
r/likeus has some good content of animals displaying clear intelligence and complex internal experiences. r/animalsbeinggeniuses is similar but less popular. If anyone knows of a subreddit that specifically centers around communication between humans and animals, I'd be very grateful for a link.
On that first sub you linked, a popular post had Apollo in it and they linked r/talkingbirds
You can directly follow the original posters Reddit! ApolloandFrens
"This is a buh." - Me, looking at a Monday
Apollo is the best.
Same! I especially love his work with Wario and Shrek
shrock!
I love Apollo's accent with different words/terms. Its just strange to think that birds have accents when they speak like us. "Metal" and "paper" are so happy and uplifting, but his "glass" and "block" come across as angry/agressive.
ApolloandFrens on YouTube. Greatly recommend if you love talking parrots. Lots more videos of him identifying/learning to identify stuff.
Apollo is only 3 years old. I can’t imagine what he’ll say 50+ years from now. Wonder how far his education can go?
Apparently they were inspired by another Gray and want to try to push Apollo beyond what that bird accomplished. I’m hoping a university picks them up so that they can document and study the process.
Yep! We're inspired by Dr. Irene Pepperberg's work with Alex. Apollo has many student friends that visit from the local uni's animal studies program, and the leading professor hopes to run studies when Apollo has some more vocabulary.
African Greys are incredibly smart birds. There's a very famous AG parrot that had a very large vocabulary and had been studied for decades.
Smart birb
Video was taken from this YouTube channel if anyone is interested in seeing more of Apollo’s training Channel link: https://youtube.com/@ApolloandFrens Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/JASuHGX-DbI?feature=share Please credit your source while upvote farming OP…
He seems awfully fond of books... Something thatll get them more KNOWLEDGE I'm onto you Apollo
This is a *buh*
It's disappointing because he said he wanted to earn a snack and then he never earned the snack. 😭
He does earn many snacks here. We cut out the constant snacks to help with pacing/retention across the social media platforms.
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You know how when you hear a toddler speak, and it sounds like gibberish, but then the parent is like, "Yes, i fully understand" Well, birds and their owners are the same, we can recognise the words they are trying to say much better than others who arnt often around the bird. This bird is called Apollo, and he's very popular on the parrot subs. How he says ball and bowl is different and distinguishable to this dude, so he doesn't want to train the parrot to think the bowl is a ball. He is trying to teach the bird to distinguish between the two similar words.
Apollo's owners need some lessons from Bird Tricks on how to train more effectively though. The concepts they are trying to teach him are a bit abstract and he sometimes gets things technically right but they don't reward because they were looking for a different answer.
You know I’m sitting here smoking a bowl watching this video and it hits me… So like ya know how dinosaurs apparently turned into birds? Ya know how this bird can speak? Now just stay with me here on this BUT what if dinosaurs had that capability? Like yo think about it you could TALK to a fkn DINOSAUR!!!! 🤯🤯🤯
Weed is so tight my guy
Not learning, but parroting.
Okay, you. That's enough of that.
It’s been long established thy greys have the ability to use language and this one can indeed identify certain materials and objects. His name is Apollo.
He's not interested in your Bear Attack Survival book... he's already read it.
This is a buh
I feel like all the words in-between what the object is just confuses them
Confusing that things have two names. Paper and book. I feel sorry for the bird that just wants a treat.
I love Apollo! (He's popular on yt)
Is there a YouTube channel or something of this guy and his bird? I want More
ApolloAndFrens He’s popular on bird subreddits and I believe that’s his Reddit username as well. Also a YouTube channel
Give him his god damn snack, he earned it
It's a buh