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Spotted at Hackaday is a story on positive reinforcement to train crows to pick up litter:
A Dutch startup wants to teach the crow population to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for bird treats.
The whole Corvidae family of birds is highly intelligent so it shouldn’t be a problem training them that they will get a reward for depositing something the Hominidae family regularly throw on the street where the birds live. This idea is in turn an evolution of the open-source Crow Box.
For some, leveraging the intelligence of animals is more appealing than programming drones which could do the same thing. A vision system mixed with a drone and a manipulator could fulfull[sic] the same function but animals are self-repairing and autonomous without our code. The irony of this project is that, although it's probably fairly easy to train crows to recognize cigarette butts, the implementation hinges on having a vision system that can recognize the butts in order to properly train the crows in the first place.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 11 2017, @11:07AM (2 children)
That's one of the things I least liked about moving from OK to TN. People in OK, for the most part, do not litter but every fucking morning here in TN I have to go pick up whatever bullshit some asshole decided they'd rather throw out their window into my yard than keep in their car until they got home.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:44PM (1 child)
> but every fucking morning here in TN
Probably not very often. How often do you get to fuck in the morning?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:37AM
More often than I care to. I want caffeine, nicotine, and solitude for the first few hours of the morning. It's bad manners to ignore a guest even if they're getting on your nerves though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.