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Here’s a video from Japanese television in which a chimp (?) plays Ms. Pac-Man.
I wish I could understand what the narrator is saying. I think it would add a great deal of meaning. It’s clear that the researchers are teaching the animal, and that the animal is learning, and even that it has some conception of what is happening. But I wonder to what degree the hand movements are merely reflex. I’d love to see a longer uncut video, and to be able to hear more about the actual results fo the research.
great video–thanks for posting it! what you have there is a bonobo, and as far as i can tell, he lives at the great ape trust, an organization which studies the intelligence of great apes. you can see him and all of his friends here: http://www.greatapetrust.org/index.php