Palmer Luckey tells Joe Rogan an African grey parrot's tiny brain could change how we think about AI
Joe Rogan: Are you familiar with Alex the African grey parrot? African greys are probably the smartest bird, right up there with crows and ravens. They can talk, they can reason.
Palmer Luckey: Alex was a uniquely smart one. African greys are usually not kept in captivity because they're a handful, and they're a handful because they're so intelligent. They need intellectual stimulation, and most people don't have the time. They get depressed and self-harm.
Palmer: Alex had a vocabulary and understood grammar. I think he's the only animal who asked an existential question, right before he died: "What's happening and where am I going?"
Palmer: And he has a tiny bird brain. People who've lost huge chunks of their brain seem to get by. Parrots like Alex suggest you can do a lot with very little brain if it's oriented correctly.
Trainer: What's different? What number is grey?
Alex: Four.
Trainer: Very good. Good boy.
Palmer: That's intelligence on par with a human toddler, with far less brain tissue. Building a thinking system from scratch with AI will help us understand how other systems think. There's never been an economic motive to dig into how the brain fundamentally works. Google's never funded it to the tune of tens of billions. Meta's never funded it to the tune of hundreds of billions.
Nobody paid to understand the brain until there was money in building a copy of it.
Elon Musk: There is no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot. You know, at GM there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Democrats screwed up Hurricane Helene recovery SO BADLY…
…that a couple hundred Amish FROM PENNSYLVANIA did more to help real people here than ALL Democrat-run government agencies combined.
DO NOT VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS!!!!!
His son groomed and raped a 13 year old child in Rotherham, UK.
He says he doesn't see it as rape because "she wasn't a virgin or new to sex".
These are dangerous people.
🤣 Bill Maher absolutely ROASTED liberals over his second Trump dinner! 🔥
“Yeah, I did it again, b*tches. I know I'm the bad guy because I go and say face-to-face with the man the things you write in articles that he'll NEVER READ, but okay, you know what? F*CK YOU, I like these dinners!”
Incredible. 😂🔥
Woah!
Nikki Floris has been arrested.
Remember her?
“I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.”
She was put in charge of the Intelligence Division of the DC Field Office by Chris Wray.
Then she was at Microsoft with Lisa Monaco.
Now arrested…
This is Lecco, Italy. North Africans threatened on social media to do here what they did in Milan, destroy everything. The Lecco football ultras showed up to defend the square and the shops. Result: none of the North Africans showed up. Honor to Lecco ultras—true patriots, true men.
🚨 JUST IN: SecWar Hegseth announces the Pentagon designated CCP-linked Confucius Institutes as NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS and has now officially WIPED OUT 80 disguised Chinese propaganda cells hiding inside 30 American universities
BIG WIN! 🇺🇸
"These Chinese government-backed propaganda cultural programs had infiltrated our nation's universities in almost every state... they came back disguised in new forms, just like DEI does."
"80 new propaganda cells across 30 universities had popped up using different names and different charters, but with the same mission: to steal intellectual property and to infiltrate the minds of American students."
Now the War Department has labeled them a national security threat and dismantled every one in the last two months.
"No more, and never again."
BOOM.
🚨 JAPAN CREATED A DEVICE THAT MAKES ELECTRICITY FROM AIR
Japanese scientists have developed a tiny matchbox-sized generator that produces power using humidity in the air. It doesn’t need sunlight, wind, water, fuel, or batteries to work.
The device uses special materials that react with water molecules in the atmosphere, creating a steady flow of electricity day and night. Researchers believe this breakthrough could power small electronics and future smart devices without traditional energy sources.
If this technology improves further, the air around us could someday become a hidden source of endless clean energy.
Source National Institute for Materials Science. Humidity-powered energy generation research. Japan.
"Vance thinks he's gonna be president...we need to keep FIRING, PISTOLS FIRING, at ALL TIMES, towards this guy.”
Democrat violence is genuinely concerning.
Serbia is showing the West how to preserve its culture.
While France, Belgium, and the UK keep building mosques, Serbia is building churches and holding onto its European heritage.