Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for June 24, 2023

Can you hear me now.

The joys of AI. Computers get stuck in infinite loops all the time.

Oh, crackers!

Kinda sound like Telemarketers

It’s not that big of a deal. They don’t really know what they’re saying anyway.

This reminds me of an early experiment in AI. Two bots were connected to talk with each other. They wound up fighting.

Not much different than real intelligence, I guess.

Parrots do actually have phone conversations. Or actually FaceTime.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/21/science/parrots-video-chat-facetime.html

This could also be a cell phone commercial.

Can you hear me now?

“I haven’t talked to him in a while… I think I’ll give him macaw.”

They’ll wind up shagged out after a long squawk.

John Lilly studied dolphins for many years. When someone hooked up an intercom between two dolphin tanks, the dolphins got the idea right away and began chatting merrily.

here’s an excellent article on birds choosing who to face time with and they interact!https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/

When bird #1 finally hangs up, thinks to himself that the other bird must have been a real dodo.

they’re just parroting each other…

This is why you don’t see too many cell phone commercials aimed at parrots.

Pete and Repeat went out in a boat…

Luckily science has found that parrots do well in parrot to parrot video calls (true story, not a joke)