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Related: About this forumChimps outsmart humans at simple strategy games
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2014/06/11/Chimps-outsmart-humans-at-simple-strategy-games/7391402491603/PASADENA, Calif., June 11 (UPI) --Complex cognitive reasoning skills don't always win out in the game of life, or in basic strategy games like the Inspection Game, the computer game chimpanzees recently outperformed their competitors in during a Caltech study.
The Inspection Game is really just a simple digital version of hide-and-go-seek. Two players (in this case, either a pair of chimps or a pair of humans) sit back to back, each facing their own computer screen. The game begins with each competitor pushing a circle on the screen and then selecting one of two blue boxes on the either side (right or left) of the screen.
After both players have chosen left or right, the computer shows each player her opponent's choice. One player is designated the seeker, the other the hider, with the seeker trying to predict their opponent's next move and the hider trying to outthink the seeker. The game goes on like this for 200 turns. Players are incentivized by rewards for successfully hiding or seeking -- humans get coins, chimps get apples.
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Don't ever say we're the superior species again. We are just part of the whole, and a destructive part at that.
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Chimps outsmart humans at simple strategy games (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Jun 2014
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Were the human participants selected from the Tea Party?
Johonny
(20,842 posts)2. This proves apples are a greater reward than coins to primates
You can't eat a coin
qazplm
(3,626 posts)3. yeah no
1. yes, we are the superior species, don't be silly in your human's suck mindset.
2. All this says is that chimps are simpler, thus easier to predict...humans are more complicated, thus harder to predict.