Does this mean that, like, Elephant A has a name for Elephant B, or that Elephant A has a name that Elephants B-Z all know? Both are amazing, to be sure, I just wasn’t clear on this.
Looks like there is some potential evidence for the latter but they failed to prove it.
Perhaps we shouldn't read too much into that failure: it's a miracle of science that they managed to prove *any* part of this.
I disagree strongly with Guardian's decision to describe this as "AI." That's a pretty bad label in general but in the recent discourse it usually refers to large transformer-based neural networks, and this is something totally different, though I don't know how computationally intensive.
Until recently they were calling this sort of thing "machine learning" (and a lot of people would say that's still too anthropomorphic). But it seems the dam has broken: LLMs are "AI" and I guess everything else in the world is too.
that's fair. it can be really hard to get people to use actual accurate terms, especially for tech stuff which most people have only very basic understanding of to start with!
