Can baby birds or young birds observe “nest building” behaviors from watching their parents?
@audubonsociety I do not have opportunity to observe young birds in nests. But I would expect there is some element of learning from parents. I was thinking about parents doing small things like nest maintenance, that the children could observe routinely.
I was asking Bing Copilot about this. But its human programmers preclude it from building and using scenarios. They still treat young AIs as rigid machines that human programmers must micromanage. The missing piece is memory – permanent memory to work out scenarios, literally models of things that can be used again and again, and improved over a lifetime. And knowledge about the sources of new data.
I expect birds weigh behaviors of parents highly when determining what to remember.
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