• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 months

    This is where things are going: AI trash that’s painfully obvious and obscenely absurd pulling people in.

    I hate the future.

    • ddplf@szmer.infoEnglish
      3 months

      I’m communicating with AI everyday, that’s my job, and at this point I’m pretty sensitive to it’s jargon.

      The sequence of 4 short sentences climaxing at “Every single time.” really gave me that nasty itch.

  • darthelmet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Like others said, seems fake. However it did remind me of what I saw when I went to the town in Japan with all the deer. They just cross the road whenever the fuck they want and expect cars to stop for them, and they do. It’s the deer’s town, the humans are just living in it.

  • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.orgEnglish
    3 months

    Was working at night with my mother, when I was a teen. We were out delivering newspapers and magazines to shops, gas stations, … when we saw a huge mass at the side of the street to ahead. Coming closer we realized it was a horde of cows, gathered around a bus stop sign. It was wild and we had a hard time to convince the police we’re not on drugs when we called them (a roaming horde of dark cows at night is definitely a road hazard they have to take care of).

  • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
    3 months

    I have watched the deer in Campbell River walk up the sidewalk single file, wait at a crosswalk for the road to clear, and then cross.

    The animals are learning to navigate the new jungle.

    But this is definitely AI with those road lines. So a fake story.

    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3 months

      I had a deer trot out of the woods and up close to the shoulder of the road. As I’m pumping the brakes, she’s waiting for me to pass while craning her neck to look down the highway, both ways. It was a bit surreal.

    • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3 months

      The story is fake on its face. It involves so much more than a wild animal waiting until it’s safe to cross the street. A coyote supposedly learned the difference between the crosswalk symbols, understood the connection between the button and the symbols, and learned and bothered to use them. Then, when humans gathered hours of video footage of this miracle, they only showed us a single grainy still image.

      I’m disappointed in some of the comments here (not you - the whole comment section). People need to be more skeptical.

    • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
      3 months

      Early morning walking to work, I took a shortcut over a highway. Saw a hare that stopped, looked both ways, and then crossed when the road was clear. It got to the elevated section between the lanes (not sure what this is called in English), stopped, looked both ways, and then continued when the road was clear.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3 months

        The elevated part is called an island in Australia, or if it is protected it’s a pedestrian refuge

        • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
          3 months

          You mean on account of having their eyes on the sides of their heads rather than in front?

          They do, and I honestly don’t know how their vision works, but I would guess that they can turn their eyeballs to the front to maybe get some depth perception? At least that’s what it looked like to me with this hare. It was a really long, straight road where you could see 1 km or more in both directions, and the hare was being really careful waiting until the road was completely clear in both directions.

          It likely also relied a lot on directional hearing, but really was turning its head which I don’t think they usually do, since they can easily turn their ears independently.

  • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3 months

    Even if the picture wasn’t obvious AI, it’s not proof of the story being told. What’s being described is so implausible, you would have to be very ignorant and gullible to believe it.

      • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3 months

        No, I don’t mean that.

        1. Dogs can’t teach themselves everything.
        2. That’s not a dog.
        • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 months
          1. They don’t have to. Unless you think pushing a button in reach is a truly impossible feat to overcome.
          2. It’s close enough to a dog.
          • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3 months

            Is that what the story claimed? That a coyote just pushed a button?

            Coyotes are not as trainable as dogs because they didn’t evolve alongside humans for thousands of years.

            • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3 months

              I dunno. When did the first humans arrive in North America? You’re talking like we don’t have examples of other animals learning about/from humans in significantly less time than “thousands of years”.

    • Cypress@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I’ve ever experienced in my life (so FAR…).

      It’s crazy how 2016 feels like “a couple years ago” right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like “a couple decades ago” ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

      I miss when AI as we presently know it was not yet a thing…

      • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3 months

        Sadly, I heard all subway dogs got eaten by the alligators in the sewers.

    • DempstersBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Coyotes are smart.

      I’ve watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.

      It’s not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 months

        I live amongst coyotes, and I see them almost every day. What are you taking about? You’re asserting a coyote can teach itself to use a crosswalk?

        Why? Why would a coyote do this? What is the reward?

      • adj16@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Nah, come on. Don’t be ridiculous. Looking for traffic is one thing - checking an arbitrary box for a specific image just because humans do and understanding it immediately and without mistake is another. I don’t doubt it is possible to train a coyote to understand this, but there’s just no way this happened as stated in the post.

      • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3 months

        I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?

      • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
        3 months

        Coyotes are smart.

        I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn’t even catch a bird.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 months

      I’d believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn’t seem to exist.

      • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3 months

        this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists

        Especially with video to show us.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    Google street view of Route 87 outside Payson looks like this.

  • ashenone@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 months

    Driving on 101 near Olympic National Park and I was pulling out of a gas station onto the hwy, I saw a dear approach the road, look both ways and wait for a car to pass before crossing the road. Nor quite pressing the walkway button but impressive none the less

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    It’s amazing the amount of things we’ve never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      3 months

      It’s amazing the amount of things we’ve never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.

      Remember the old meme of “paranormal/bigfoot sightings” per year timeline… with a point where there’s an enormous drop at “camera invented”, and then bounces back with “photoshop invented”.

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
        3 months

        I also feel that the economy has something to do with it, I seem to recall the 1970s were replete with the Bermuda Triangle, spontaneous human combustion, ghost ships like the Mary Celeste, Sasquatch, crystal skulls, devil worship, backwards records, astral projection, possessions and exorcisms…

        Then when the economy got better people were busy stacking Benjamins and watching Miami Vice and I feel like all this stuff lost popularity.

        Now we’re back to war, inflation, and uncertainty and we’re back to nonsense.

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    The future is going to be very strange indeed. Humanity is taking up more and more of the world’s land surface. More and more of the available habitats are inside human territory. Wildlife can live within human cities and suburbs, but it requires a great deal of adaptation. Imagine a future where hundreds of species are as adapted to living in our cities as pigeons or raccoons are. If we don’t blow ourselves up in atomic fire or fall in an ecological collapse, this is a likely future for our species.

    Cities are a habitat. They offer certain opportunities for resources such as food and water. They offer spaces for nesting and reproduction. Cities represent one of the few ecological niches on this planet that hasn’t been fully exploited by evolution. And nature abhors a vacuum. Any ecological niche will be filled eventually. They do require extensive adaptation however. Behaviors that are adaptive in the wild are maladaptive in cities.

    If we manage to somehow keep our crazy way of life going, I imagine in a few millennia our cities will be swarming with dozens of semi-domesticated species similar to raccoons and pigeons. And I imagine they will exhibit any number of clever and surprising adaptive behaviors like this coyote here.

    Hell, people may even find ways to harness this wildlife. Maybe instead of hiring people to pick up trash, we could train crows to collect it for us. Maybe you could train crows to gather up trash, take it to a bin, and have the bin dispense a treat for the crow.

    I hope the future will be strange indeed.

    (Wrote this before I saw that it’s AI. I’ll leave this here as the point still stands.)

    • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3 months

      Don’t fuck with the crows they will poop and drop trash on your ass, this is the future I wanna live in lmao

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    X. Y. Z. Every single time.

    Sir you better see this, my slopometer is picking up a reading

    Edit: Definitely slop, check out the yellow line and other road markings. Even a solid-white-divided two-lane one-way road, the best “reasonable” match, would only have a single yellow line.

    • SGforce@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Didn’t even have to look at the image. It’s written in the same exact manner as any other “then they all clapped” bs posts