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I misread this as AI initially ...

The only art-centric monkey I knew was Koko, the female gorilla.

Here she draws some things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iixL0CMOAM

Smartest monkey I ever saw was Kanzi though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKinbfgrkU

I think it is only a question and matter of time before the prison systems for monkeys may have to be reconsidered completely. Of course even smarter monkeys than Kanzi won't reach human brain functions, but they are also very convincingly extremely clever and can adapt. Numerous videos where monkeys handle (!) smartphones show this already and this is just the beginning. Like, in the movie Planet of the Apes. Just long-term in smaller steps.

My coworkers gifted me a painting by cheeta (the last chimp to play him) when I left the job. I framed it professionally in rattan and banana wood. The painting itself looks very similar to the paintings by Ai- same color schemes and patterns.

Edit to add instead of a new comment: I also remember how good of a life he had in retirement. He lived in an apartment-like dwelling. Slept in a bed, woke up and ate some fruit. Would plink on the piano awhile, maybe paint some, go for a swim or walk, maybe play the piano or paint some more.... it was amusing to read while slaving away at the coding mines.

Would love to see some of his paintings, let me just google "AI chimp painting" .. oh..

Finally, some Ai art I can get behind.

Sleep easy fellow earthling, there’s a new Ai in town now.

Hey universe, when people is asking for the end of AI, they don't mean this.

I just watched the horror movie Primate, where such a chimp got rabies and starts killing everyone by the numbers in very clever and horrid ways. Not funny

For anyone who is interested in this sort of thing, I can recommend this book:

Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts

Absolutely brilliant!

God took the wrong Ai, RIP

Reminds me of AiAi in Super Monkey Ball.

The Einstein of chimpanzees

does someone have a video about him counting and/or painting?

is this the first generative Ai art?

fell to my knees in a walmart

W Deji

I'd genuinely like a black bar for this- cross-species respect.

Impossible to not make a joke about this being just more ai news on the front page.

An important comma

More about Ai: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0604-0

> Born wild, Ai was soon taken into captivity and sold to KUPRI in 1977 by an animal trader (this type of sale became illegal in 1980 with Japan's ratification of CITES).

So how do we do this kind of thing now?

Facilitated communication takes many forms.

Evidence of intentionality in the painting would demand a well structured experiment.

49 years enslaved in a laboratory, forced to learn tricks, likely deprived of food and comfort until she played along. No clue why Jane Goodall embraced such cruelty. Showing how intelligent non-human animals are, then forcing them to endure such inhumane treatment is par the course for 'scientists'.