Are You Smarter Then A Monkey?

[shana162]

no im not but im smarter than u cuz thats a chimp

[cammycap99]

were retarts :O

[supercrazydude13]

put the chimp against the smartest hman mind there is and then see if he is smarter !!!!!

[twisto]

@supercrazydude13 but then if we compared ourselves to the smartest human mind there is, by comparison we'd be labeled as extremely mentally disabled

[lazyfreedom98]

Because the slow human is thinking "This is a Bullshit Test".

[diosar]

This is not about who is smarter, the answer in simple: Chimps have better short memory term and this is because of their evolution and environment in which they have to possess a strong short memory in order to survive. IT does not mean they are more intelligent than us.

[conradbate]

This is actually a trick question for humans. Humans already know how to count so the human brain deposits and deals with numerical information totally differently. Chimps don't spend years doing maths at pre school instead they know a jumble of symbols (to them) that represent an order. Their brains devote large amounts of real estate to the problem over a huge amount of time. Humans use integer symbols to DO problems. Chipms see the numbers AS the problem.

[DannyAces]

These monkeys were trained over months, perhaps years for this task.

Give a human a day (and a reward of a dollar instead of a peanut) to train for this task and we'll see where humans stand.

[Jack9ix]

Are you smarter THAN a monkey

[Nicro327]

Humans are breed to over think things and make equations and solutions so that we can apply them to other things. I do believe this thinking skill is called application and it's the second highest thinking skill there is. IMO This is what I think.

[Nicro327]

This is like flashing a keyboard in front of a nerd's face and asking him to type the abc's and his reward is a new game.

[browerxxyy]

RETARDED

Force me to sit in front of that screen for as long as they forced those primates to and ill do it probably just as fast as them cuz its fucking brainless to them, they dont know numbers like we do, they know 9 = before 8 or you dont get a treat.

[BrAvZtheGrEaT]

This chimp doing the same things everyday. The only focus of he/her mind is this machine in order to get peanuts. Think of it, if you master the keyboard letters, numbers and symbols or whatever, you don't need to look at it, because you knew already where it is. The same at this chimp.

[maergoth]

They can do it better because we have developed alternative means of problem solving and strayed away from solely visual operation. We see numbers flash up on the screen and we FOCUS on getting them in the correct order. We develop strategies to solve the problem, instead of just initially storing visual information to reference later (which naturally hasn't been as important as INTERPRETING visual information). A chimp sees and it does, we're incapable of that. We're bred to overthink.

[BernieB420]

well how big of a Monkey?

[MrRobotFish]

they should offer a like a hot girl that flashs the guy ever time he won. i think that would inspire him to do good

[tragedy314]

smarter THAN a monkey

[supermonk3y07]

I'm a supermonkey

[quitifa]

This is a variation on an old study. Chimps out perform humans because they don't have cognitive interference.

In other words, humans know what the numbers MEAN. Chimps only see symbols and recognize a sequence.

Humans understand that the numbers are mathematical and relate to one another which interferes with the task. Humans essentially "know too much."

The same test was run on novel symbols and humans were fast than chimps. The "peanut reward" motivator has long been proven wrong.

[laurens890]

@quitifa The chimps also know what the numbers mean. They can link the numbers to real life objects, in other words, they can count :)

[TheHunted113]

I Am A Monkey

[LimpLoser]

i already knew chimps were smart, they sent one into space. it died.

[schmidtbag]

lmao best possible comment you could make about this video

[SpatsCaddy]

erm, that's a chimpanzee, not a monkey

[axonG]

"Are you smarter THAN a monkey" makes sense.... "Are you smarter then [there was] a monkey" doesn't

[junkie4vids]

Do chimps really rely on smarts? That chimp can rip open Charlie Gibson's face and chew every finger off.

[milkman1632579]

poo poo comes out of your bum

[miniclip78]

What a fucking beast.

[THEWHITEMANSION]

A chimp winnig the WSOP... maybe I mean Jammie Gold did it.

[lash707]

oh, this makes me feel just GREAT aboutself

[Mushiotaku]

yeah youtube comments sure are the pinnacle of complex forms of communication

[m4lvolio]

roflchoppa

[THE1CALLEDJ]

The scientists are measuring two compleatly different animals. What next, are humans faster that a cheetahs. No this video just test for short term memory differences between humans and chimps. The human mind is more complex than a chimps allowing us to have complex forms of communications such as the ones we are using on youtube.

I assure you the test does not account for those meager differences.

[SaburoOkita]

most prolly chimps rely more on visual memories, while human beings have evolved to comprehend stuff in languages and logics, which made them performed poorly in this test.

[m4lvolio]

That's it. Fuck humanity. I'm going home to devolve.

[JPenguin555]

and then we can walk around naked!!!!

[m4lvolio]

And throw shit at people.

[xwarxsabrewulf]

Lmao count me in :)

[jvanlente]

As a few others mentioned here, I wouldn't be saying anything about intelligence without knowing how to spell simple words. Did you finish 4th grade?

[tedtedtedtedted7]

this is really interesting...

the whole chimps caring more about peanuts then we do.. very very interesting

btw protip: stop focusing on title and unrelated information

[dared111]

Did you notice that the humans had it flash for a moment, while for the monkeys they were allowed to have a free button press?

[GenerationXeroFilms]

If they harness nuclear technology...

...We're FUCKED!

[TonyKaku]

Here's my thought: We see numbers. Chimps don't see numbers, they see patterns. Furthermore, we count the order, chimps don't. They see the patterns in the pattern - a sort of grammar. This symbol ranks above that, etc. Learning this way might be easier for a human. The real test is to introduce both human and chimp to novel symbols.

[fatalkeyv]

uhh....chimps are trained??

[bubbagyro]

A squirrel or a Rea (parrot) will also beat a human in this test, when configured for the anatomical differences.

[bubbagyro]

Smarter "Then" a monkey? I don't think the author is.

[atoag]

Than*... not "Then" (as in the title... nublet)

[cyborgtroy]

Video uploader must have not been smarter than a monkey.

[JKoss618]

I wish I was a chimp.

[AnimeHighDefinition]

Better short-term photographic memory? Different brain circuits? Not exactly 'smarter' but perhaps 'wittier'.

[Nosies199]

That's great...a monkey can remember numbers in the right order. But can a monkey perform something difficult like quantum physics or chemical engineering?

lmao probly

[Nusentinsaino]

How the fuck?

[t4ldu]

ha ha to humans that reprezents the downfall of humans think about it

[GoodMarilynManson]

So we are actually a devolution of the monkey. Provably true. All that we have do more than a monkey is back from each other and poison this planet. The monkeys are provably more happy than us.

[collapseofthedollar]

if u were a human in a lab with monkeys testing you where all u did was that stupid test i bet you'd get pretty good at it

[jihan1984]

wOw.. so Funny ya??!! smart....... lol =))

[rilham2new]

Kok bisa gitu ya :D

[darkhorserider88]

Let's ask these chimps what to do about global warming.

[StartledFetus]

now i am scared to be around monkeys

[Yacithane]

its cuz the human is a woman

[Pikapoo1]

Well, this makes humans look like dog dookie, huh?

[faiz625]

Hmm . . . evolution indeed ^^

[Nebozilla]

I can see who originated from chimps and who didnt...obviously 99% of these responses show otherwise...

[414gbg]

That primate had most likely been training with the same setup of numbers before. Perhaps there was maybe 100x different panels of numbers, and it would simply recognize the next generated one by it's geometry, and ofcourse it would have learnt each and every new panel of numbers correct order. Since counting seem to be something easy for apes these days.

It is highly doubtable that it has an instant photographic memory.

[slipsour123]

Wow. I've never seen a more disgusting display of superiority.

[414gbg]

Be rational..

[Nebozilla]

Why would they do a study where they just repeat the same patterns? That would just be a simple memory test, not how fast they can think...fail.

[414gbg]

If you only knew how often it happens within the corrupted part of the science world. People just purposedly make the experiment `prove´ whatever they find interest in claiming to have been proven.

For example the first research team to have "successfully cloned stem cells". And countless medecines created in the past.

It's more commong than you think. Fail.

[TheJacolyte]

What's the advantage of lying though? Why would science lie about this? What would their motive be in spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in lab equipment, scientists time, and monkeys? Just to call you a stupid human and rub it in your face?

You do have a point that all science should be rigorously tested over and over again by different scientists with different motives (this is the basis of science)

I have seen other videos where chimps display very intelligent behavior.

Lets be real

[1nsan3taxcoll3ctor]

im the best at this game the key is , is to do it fast it works

[mattydstah]

thank you abc news for a clip devoid of any critical thinking. ironically, making it appropriate for a chimp. Not one bit of "so what, who cares" in this whole video. Make chimps write computer code, then I give a shit.

[Luminoth545]

Are Your smarter than a monkey, not then a monkey fool

[annoyingzhang]

there minds work differently. I want to see a chimp to Algebra or play piano, but no! there minds work differently. My theory is that chimps have a better memory and thats probably it.

[laurens890]

I think their minds work the same as us, we have a same sort of brain, but only we have more thinking capacity...

[laurens890]

It isn't only memory in which they are good it. There are so many mental tasks in which chimps are good at.

[DigitalRed]

It was "young chimpanzees" vs adult humans. Those chimps were basically raised to do that one activity, and since they're young they'll learn much more readily. I'm sure they've sat there for hours, pressing the numbers and eating peanuts. To bring an adult human in to compete proves nothing. I'm sure a human child raised to press numbered boxes would be as good, or better. (And why didn't the human get peanuts? That's favouritism.)

[seraphim123]

i'd kill for memory like that.

[soulstealer29a]

I, for one, welcome our new chimp overlords.

[ArashinoKaze]

Simcon the reason why they are saying that the Chimps are smarter is that they appear to have a much larger spacial cortex (they need very little time to see an image and store it in memory and then recall said image) which in most testing and results mean the potential to be exceptionally smart, Dolphins also test high in spacial cortex style test too.

[gesztenye76]

This is amazing!!!

[simcon]

go the monekys lol.

Seriously it dosn't mean they are smarter than us it just means that have a better memory than humans do.

[laurens890]

memory is part of human intelligence