Isn’t there a crow in Japan that does something similar at a crosswalk?
This is where things are going: AI trash that’s painfully obvious and obscenely absurd pulling people in.
I hate the future.
Science meme or facebook meme?
Like others said, seems fake. However it did remind me of what I saw when I went to the town in Japan with all the deer. They just cross the road whenever the fuck they want and expect cars to stop for them, and they do. It’s the deer’s town, the humans are just living in it.
That’s a Wiley Coyote.
wAIly cAIote
Oh bravo.
Damn the lead researcher is brutal! Using this opportunity to shit on the interns like that.
Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.
Gonna need sauce on this one.
An LLM lawl
When they first started the noise for blind people to cross, the mockingbirds learned the “song” and would sing at very inappropriate times. That made the city change their tune.
I have watched the deer in Campbell River walk up the sidewalk single file, wait at a crosswalk for the road to clear, and then cross.
The animals are learning to navigate the new jungle.
I had a deer trot out of the woods and up close to the shoulder of the road. As I’m pumping the brakes, she’s waiting for me to pass while craning her neck to look down the highway, both ways. It was a bit surreal.
Early morning walking to work, I took a shortcut over a highway. Saw a hare that stopped, looked both ways, and then crossed when the road was clear. It got to the elevated section between the lanes (not sure what this is called in English), stopped, looked both ways, and then continued when the road was clear.
The elevated part is called an island in Australia, or if it is protected it’s a pedestrian refuge
Aren’t hares always looking both ways?
You mean on account of having their eyes on the sides of their heads rather than in front?
They do, and I honestly don’t know how their vision works, but I would guess that they can turn their eyeballs to the front to maybe get some depth perception? At least that’s what it looked like to me with this hare. It was a really long, straight road where you could see 1 km or more in both directions, and the hare was being really careful waiting until the road was completely clear in both directions.
It likely also relied a lot on directional hearing, but really was turning its head which I don’t think they usually do, since they can easily turn their ears independently.
Lol as if Arizona in any way accomodates pedestrians.
The story is fake on its face. It involves so much more than a wild animal waiting until it’s safe to cross the street. A coyote supposedly learned the difference between the crosswalk symbols, understood the connection between the button and the symbols, and learned and bothered to use them. Then, when humans gathered hours of video footage of this miracle, they only showed us a single grainy still image.
I’m disappointed in some of the comments here (not you - the whole comment section). People need to be more skeptical.
Chat, is this real? Because I want it to be real.
‘Moonlit Sentences’ seems like a credible source, no?
I can’t find anything about it but this same deep fried image
Just because the image is made up doesnt mean its impossible. I have witnessed on several occasions different stray dogs walking down the footpath and using pedestrian crossings to cross the road after looking both ways.
If livestock can figure out gate latches from watching people its not completely unreasonable that a coyote might have concluded “The humans do this and I’ve never seen a splattered human on the highway” and m I mimicked the behavior.
If there’s a camera there, why isn’t there a real picture?
Nope. AI.
Even if the picture wasn’t obvious AI, it’s not proof of the story being told. What’s being described is so implausible, you would have very ignorant and gullible to believe it.
I’d believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn’t seem to exist.
this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists
Especially with video to show us.
You mean dogs can’t be taught things?
No, I don’t mean that.
- Dogs can’t teach themselves everything.
- That’s not a dog.
- They don’t have to. Unless you think pushing a button in reach is a truly impossible feat to overcome.
- It’s close enough to a dog.
Is that what the story claimed? That a coyote just pushed a button?
Coyotes are not as trainable as dogs because they didn’t evolve alongside humans for thousands of years.
I dunno. When did the first humans arrive in North America? You’re talking like we don’t have examples of other animals learning about/from humans in significantly less time than “thousands of years”.
From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I’ve ever experienced in my life (so FAR…).
It’s crazy how 2016 feels like “a couple years ago” right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like “a couple decades ago” ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.
I miss when AI as we presently know it was not yet a thing…
Coyotes are smart.
I’ve watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.
It’s not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?
Nah, come on. Don’t be ridiculous. Looking for traffic is one thing - checking an arbitrary box for a specific image just because humans do and understanding it immediately and without mistake is another. I don’t doubt it is possible to train a coyote to understand this, but there’s just no way this happened as stated in the post.
I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?
Okay, to set the scene:
I’m eating lunch. Sitting at a high top against a big wall of windows, street level. I am all about this fucking salad bar. And gawking out this window, because once it’s mixed properly, it all comes out the same color.
A crow flies by.
Lands at the edge of the curb. Claws around the corner.
Waits for the taxi that was already taking the turn, inches from this bird.
Looks upstreet, looks downstreet, jets across both lanes of main road.
I’m not anthropomorphizing shit, crows are fucking Smart. They know cars are dangerous. I wish my fucking dog would figure that out
Coyotes are smart.
I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn’t even catch a bird.
My brain chose to read part of the quote as
"DOT voted unanimously to keep the
coyote on its inspection staff"
the coyote hasn’t jaywalked once
That’s because jaywalking is not a real thing
I used to think that J walking was crossing the street and coming half way back.
It is. But you have to hop with both feet back onto the curb for it to count.
Also fuck cars.
But be careful when you put your dick in, the exhaust might be hot. You know, not HOT hot, just hot.
You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it’s just warm enough for a while.
This guy fucks cars!
Fuck cars after a safe cooldown time.
Also fuck off. :)
Also fuck me :(
The future is going to be very strange indeed. Humanity is taking up more and more of the world’s land surface. More and more of the available habitats are inside human territory. Wildlife can live within human cities and suburbs, but it requires a great deal of adaptation. Imagine a future where hundreds of species are as adapted to living in our cities as pigeons or raccoons are. If we don’t blow ourselves up in atomic fire or fall in an ecological collapse, this is a likely future for our species.
Cities are a habitat. They offer certain opportunities for resources such as food and water. They offer spaces for nesting and reproduction. Cities represent one of the few ecological niches on this planet that hasn’t been fully exploited by evolution. And nature abhors a vacuum. Any ecological niche will be filled eventually. They do require extensive adaptation however. Behaviors that are adaptive in the wild are maladaptive in cities.
If we manage to somehow keep our crazy way of life going, I imagine in a few millennia our cities will be swarming with dozens of semi-domesticated species similar to raccoons and pigeons. And I imagine they will exhibit any number of clever and surprising adaptive behaviors like this coyote here.
Hell, people may even find ways to harness this wildlife. Maybe instead of hiring people to pick up trash, we could train crows to collect it for us. Maybe you could train crows to gather up trash, take it to a bin, and have the bin dispense a treat for the crow.
I hope the future will be strange indeed.
(Wrote this before I saw that it’s AI. I’ll leave this here as the point still stands.)
