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![]() They are contained within the clade Coraciimorphae, which includes a large assemblage of cavity nesting species such as trogons (order: Trogoniformes), hornbills and hoopoes (order: Bucerotiformes), and rollers and kingfishers (order: Coraciiformes) ( Jarvis et al., 2014). Woodpeckers are an intriguing group of birds. Woodpeckers: A Family-Wide Model for Studies of Integrative Evolution Our aim is to begin to merge our understanding of the ecological factors associated with the diversification of “beak behavior” and the physiological and mechanical factors that shape this behavior. We do this by reviewing the relatively limited literature on the topic and then developing a model for how drumming may be controlled. We then move the discussion to the physiological and biomechanical basis of woodpecker drilling and drumming. A deeper exploration of the evolution of drumming displays (a territorial signal that is produced by rapidly hitting their bill against a resonant substrate) allows us to assess how selection promotes behavioral diversity, particularly in the face of morphological constraint. We then review how these birds use their bill for important naturally selected and sexually selected behavioral traits. We start by discussing the woodpecker clade and its diversity. ![]() We do this by focusing on the evolution of woodpecker “beak behavior,” or the actions of drilling for foraging and nest creation as well as drumming for social signaling. Here, we explore the evolutionary interplay among behavioral evolution and organismal ecology and physiology. Our understanding of behavioral evolution from this mechanistic standpoint is murkier than it is from the ecological standpoint-yet, both perspectives are necessary to fully uncover the complex processes by which behavioral changes can (or cannot) occur. In these cases, complex behaviors occur through concomitant changes to the nervous and/or musculoskeletal systems that determine how individuals express behavior ( Bauwens et al., 1995 Clifton et al., 2015 Ding et al., 2016 Fuxjager et al., 2016 Barkan et al., 2018). Yet, at the same time, we must remember that behavior itself is often a manifestation of complex neurobiological and physiological processes. Such work has resulted in an extremely rich knowledge of environmental factors that create selection pressures, which in turn modify the way that individuals interact with their social and physical surroundings to better survive and reproduce. Indeed, most research within the field of behavioral ecology that addresses this objective explores the ecological factors that influence changes to a species’ behavioral program over time ( Westneat and Fox, 2010). Understanding how behavioral traits evolve is a longstanding goal of organismal biology. Our aim is to introduce the woodpecker as an ideal study system to study the physiological basis of behavioral evolution and how it relates to selection born through different ecological factors. We synthesize research related to principles of avian muscle physiology and ecology to guide inferences about the biomechanical basis of woodpecker drumming. We describe how different components of the display-namely, speed (bill strikes/beats sec –1), length (total number of beats), and rhythm-differentially evolve likely in response to sexual selection by male-male competition, whereas other components of the display appear more evolutionarily static, possibly due to morphological or physiological constraints. Individuals produce this behavior by rapidly hammering their bill on trees in their habitat, and it serves as an aggressive signal during territorial encounters. Our paper explores the interplay between ecological, physiological, and mechanical factors that shape the evolution of an elaborate display in woodpeckers called the drum. Yet organismal physiology and biomechanics also play a role in this process by defining the types of behavioral traits that are more or less likely to arise. Historically, this topic is examined from an ecological perspective, where behavioral evolution is thought to occur in response to selection pressures that arise through different social and environmental factors. Understanding how and why behavioral traits diversify during the course of evolution is a longstanding goal of organismal biologists. 2Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.1Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States. Could the judge reliably detect which was the computer? That was a question equivalent to ‘Can machines think?’, Turing suggested. This was a scenario in which human judges hold short, text-based conversations with a hidden computer and an unseen person. Turing suggested an assessment that he called the imitation game 2. The most famous test of machine intelligence has long been the Turing test, proposed by the British mathematician and computing luminary Alan Turing in 1950, when computers were still in their infancy. “We have to understand what they can do and where they fail, so that we can know how to use them in a safe manner.” Is the Turing test dead? If LLMs are going to be applied in real-world domains - from medicine to law - it’s important to understand the limits of their capabilities, Mitchell says. Research on how best to test LLMs and what those tests show also has a practical point. ![]() Such benchmarks could also help to show what is missing in today’s machine-learning systems, and untangle the ingredients of human intelligence, says Brenden Lake, a cognitive computational scientist at New York University. Tests such as the logic puzzles that reveal differences between the capabilities of people and AI systems are a step in the right direction, say researchers from both sides of the discussion. “There’s no Geiger counter we can point at something and say ‘beep beep beep - yes, intelligent’,” Ullman adds. ![]() The reason for the split, he says, is a lack of conclusive evidence supporting either opinion. “There’s very good smart people on all sides of this debate,” says Ullman. Others (including himself and researchers such as Mitchell) are much more cautious. Some attribute the algorithms’ achievements to glimmers of reasoning, or understanding, he says. Other AI systems might beat the LLMs at any one task, but they have to be trained on data relevant to a specific problem, and cannot generalize from one task to another.ĬhatGPT is a black box: how AI research can break it openīroadly speaking, two camps of researchers have opposing views about what is going on under the hood of LLMs, says Tomer Ullman, a cognitive scientist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What’s striking is the breadth of capabilities that emerges from this autocomplete-like algorithm trained on vast stores of human language. For chatbots built on LLMs, there is an extra element: human trainers have provided extensive feedback to tune how the bots respond. They work simply by generating plausible next words when given an input text, based on the statistical correlations between words in billions of online sentences they are trained on. In the past two to three years, LLMs have blown previous AI systems out of the water in terms of their ability across multiple tasks. ![]() “People in the field of AI are struggling with how to assess these systems,” says Melanie Mitchell, a computer scientist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico whose team created the logic puzzles (see ‘An abstract-thinking test that defeats machines’). Tested another way, they seem less impressive, exhibiting glaring blind spots and an inability to reason about abstract concepts. Tested in one way, they breeze through what once were considered landmark feats of machine intelligence. The team behind the logic puzzles aims to provide a better benchmark for testing the capabilities of AI systems - and to help address a conundrum about large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4. But GPT-4, the most advanced version of the AI system behind the chatbot ChatGPT and the search engine Bing, gets barely one-third of the puzzles right in one category of patterns and as little as 3% correct in another, according to a report by researchers this May 1. In a test consisting of a series of brightly coloured blocks arranged on a screen, most people can spot the connecting patterns. What can’t they do? Solve simple visual logic puzzles. The world’s best artificial intelligence (AI) systems can pass tough exams, write convincingly human essays and chat so fluently that many find their output indistinguishable from people’s. ![]() In fact, just go get the whole SysInternals suite and put it all in your PATH. Really take some time and learn how to do boxes, arrows, colors and more and you'll be a more effective screen-sharer. How do you draw on the screen when you're sharing your screen? ZoomIt has been THAT TOOL in my toolbox. 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I recently had the opportunity to give Wondershare’s Recoverit Free Data Recovery Software a try, and overall I’m pretty impressed. I’ve used several of these tools over the years with various levels of success, and I’m always on the lookout for something better. Luckily, there are data recovery tools you can use to recover lost files from a damaged or corrupted drive when the need arrives. ![]() Of course you’ll probably be able to recover those lost files if you have a recent backup on hand, but what if the file(s) you need to recover aren’t included in your backup set?Įven worse, what if your backup gets lost or corrupted? It’s a fact of modern life: If you use a computer you WILL lose important files at some point due to a drive crash or some other unforeseen catastrophe. Moreover, all these amazing features are presented in a self-explained interface that will have you happily downloading, converting, compressing, editing, and recording videos. 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