What interesting facts does AI know about chameleons?

[Jake_Mellor23]

Did you know that chameleons have the incredible ability to change color not only for camouflage but also to communicate with each other and regulate their body temperature? Their eyes can move independently, allowing them to have a 360-degree view without moving their heads. It's truly fascinating how these creatures have evolved such unique and adaptive features!

 

[kinyonga]

Are you joking?
This IS a chameleon forum!
I knew all of that back in the 80’s!

Changing colour for camouflage…it’s not really completely true.

Did you know they have a negative powered lens in the eyes?
They have a 3 chambered heart?
Lack the loop of Henle in their urinary system?
Some vibrate to communicate? Some play dead to avoid being eaten?

Welcome to the forum…stick around and you’ll be able to add a lot more to your list of chameleon facts.

 

[Jake_Mellor23]

Are you joking?
This IS a chameleon forum!
I knew all of that back in the 80’s!

Changing colour for camouflage…it’s not really completely true.

Did you know they have a negative powered lens in the eyes?
They have a 3 chambered heart?
Lack the loop of Henle in their urinary system?
Some vibrate to communicate? Some play dead to avoid being eaten?

Welcome to the forum…stick around and you’ll be able to add a lot more to your list of chameleon facts.

Actually, I was joking, and it was probably a failed attempt at humor. I wanted to highlight the chat's shortcomings.

 

[kinyonga]

What shortcomings are you referring to?

 

[MissSkittles]

What shortcomings are you referring to?

I think op is referring to AI’s chat shortcomings…not the forum‘s.

 

[kinyonga]

I think op is referring to AI’s chat shortcomings…not the forum‘s.

Al’s?

 

[elizaann2]

Artificial intelligence I’m guessing. Or artificial stupid because they don’t know everything about chameleons like it should.

 

[kinyonga]

Not chameleons but…Siri says…

 

[kinyonga]

Hmmm.. don’t know if this qualifies…
https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-chameleon-robot-blend-its-surroundings

 

[MissSkittles]

Not chameleons but…Siri says…

Ok. That was way too much fun for a short time.
It has no idea what Lucky is.


This one may explain why he’s all fired up & dancing for my girl beardie.



It has no idea about Bart covered in shed.

It did correctly identify Mango and Stella.

 

[Jake_Mellor23]

I think op is referring to AI’s chat shortcomings…not the forum‘s.

That's true, thank you I probably didn't express myself well

 

[JacksJill]

Apparently Jackson’s are also bradypodion and chamaeleo genius rather than trioceros. Must be the yellow side stripes that determine genus.

 

[Jake_Mellor23]

What shortcomings are you referring to?

About the shortcomings of artificial intelligence, including chatGPT

 

[JacksJill]

All it can do is regurgitate what it has gathered. It can’t evaluate the reliability of its source material.

 

[kinyonga]

This might be interesting…
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HtqnVSCj3q

 

[elizaann2]

I just did this with all my animals. Apparently my crested gecko is a frog….it got my dogs wrong… my Jackson’s is a bradypodin and my veiled is from Africa….and depending on the angle of my panther it’s correct My hampster is apparently a mouse too. Bless it.

 

[Jake_Mellor23]

I’m also not very positive about the modern trend of using AI, as nothing can replace the human mind. However, there are some very useful plugins. One of them, essay writer ai recently saved my butt from trouble. It helps users create well-structured, nuanced essays efficiently, something I didn't have time for.

 

[Tkrd69]

Give AI time, there are a lot of movies about it. One comes to mind the terminator.

 

[DeremensisBlue]

AI is a powerful tool that will do as many great things as it messes up. One thing it does great is sound authoritative regardless of how correct what it is saying is. But this is nothing new. People have been creating websites with information they have been gathering off of social media and other websites and throwing it all together in a somewhat coherent manner to get web traffic. I have seen some of those websites been quoted here as support for whatever position the poster is taking. So we, as a community, are already not very good at checking sources.
There are now AI generated chameleon YouTube channels, Facebook groups, and websites. And it is disturbing how they often come up with Google, Bing, and other search engine results. AI will, hopefully, get better at pulling from authoritative sources, but if Google can't do it I wonder if AI can be any better. One good thing that might come from the onslaught of regurgitated and re-combined chameleon information is that it might press the community into checking sources. Do you know the author? Does the author exist outside of the digital platform they have created? Is there evidence they keep chameleons? What is the level of experience that they have with the species in question?
Because if the author, whether human or AI, does not have experience with what they are talking about then they are pulling from other sources and the question now is not about what they bring to the table, but how well they have sorted through what other people have brought to the table.

I have experimented with AI to see if it could help write podcast episodes or blog posts. And AI falls flat on its face at every turn if you want a factual and meaty topic discussion. I can't even get a decent skeleton from it that wouldn't take as much effort to edit it as it would to write it. Though AI is great if you want to create a year's worth of SEO heavy blog posts and you know your target beginner audience won't know the difference between chameleon cages or hookworm genera. I don't think I am any great visionary to predict that this is just the start of an explosion of websites with authoritative gibberish aimed at SEO and raking in Google adsense money.

 

[elizaann2]

Give AI time, there are a lot of movies about it. One comes to mind the terminator.

My first thought is always The Matrix. Will you take the red pill or the blue pill?