Can I Convince AI That Whales Are Fish?

[@eggnogalcoholic]

I think we’re seeing our sweet innocent Clint being forced into a premature villain origin story. First the animal rumble books and now this. We will always remember that it was the year 2023 that pushed him over the edge and we only have ourselves to blame

[@sreace723]

😂😂😂😂

[@ClintsReptiles]

😂

[@eybaza6018]

Clint isn't just a villain,he's a super one What's the difference? PRESENTATION!

[@racenturtlez]

@@ClintsReptilesI get this problem with my students constantly. Clint, sir, whales aren’t fish, but they *are* Osteichthyes. “Fish” is a colloquial term like how we use “meat” or “vegetables” or “fruit”. These are all meaningless taxonomically. The AI can only work with what it is fed sir.

[@ClintsReptiles]

It did just fine with all of the previous questions.

[@rynnightshade]

I love how AI is always like a kid trying to meet word count

[@checkthefishbox8556]

For real but also this is how Clint talks lmaooo

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

You can ask it to shorten. I asked it "In three words, are whales fish? And it responded "No, mammals." No one said it could count.

[@DZ-DizzyDumm]

​@@checkthefishbox8556Clint is more like the kid who has a set of favorite words that he shoves into any scenario he can get away with

[@ThatGuyBobby]

Because llm's are basically just a super complicated auto-complete

[@cortster12]

​@ThatGuyBobby The more I learn about the brain, the more it's beginning to feel the same way for it too.

[@Dillpickle1997]

I did not have Clint calling GPT an idiot on my 2023 bingo card

[@macdietz]

Then you haven't interacted with chatGPT

[@theCarterofOZ]

Listening to AI Clint is like stepping into a bizzaro universe where Clint was born with no sense of humour and is no more engaging than the average college professor. You know, if you’re into that kind of thing.

[@PalmettoNDN]

Best comment ever.

[@jomo9454]

Except even average professors are more engaging than the AI Clint. I just hope tomorrow's kids will be able to tell and appreciate the differences.

[@georgerobins4110]

Legit tho lmao I zoned out so hard during AI Clint’s explanations sooooo much. My ADHD couldn’t deal lol

[@s.m.9871]

And every once in awhile he just starts to spiral into bizarre mispronunciations

[@ciragoettig1229]

I think this is largely the 'corporate neutral' style it was finetuned or prompted to produce, at the very end of making it. The underlying model is prob more flexible. I've seen people play with free models to give them all kinds of tone or even full roles to play. The incorrectness is prob more difficult to tweak.

[@manadoria]

A purely ChatGPT-guided tournament determing "Who Would Win" would be an entertaining video. If it does not select Chuckwalla as the victor, then we know the system is broken.

[@mstieler8480]

Yes. a Re-do of both books using ChatGPT to determine the winners.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Well, if it only followed facts and logic, the Orca would win the Ocean one, the Garial the Reptile one. In a battle between the two, while it wouldn't probably happen, the Orca is the big favourite. The Garial just can't hurt it enough to be a threat and Orcas are bigger and better swimmer, not to mention more intelligent. Orcas are seriously OP.

[@LauraEilers]

Or just read it the books, ask for opinions, see if it gets upset

[@luciengrondin5802]

At first it was all fun and games, but when Clint started arguing with the machine it became quite fascinating.

[@julianbrelsford]

He never got around to explaining to the AI that chickens, toads, snakes, and platypus are bony fish.

[@marianneconverse4824]

I thought AI was really nailing Clint’s voice, until it got tired or something and started with the clay-des and such. And no, nothing can replace Real Live Clint, ever.

[@liangyanzhang7379]

YEAH! when a voice gets tired i can't listen to it anymore. got tired. CAN AI get tired?

[@Hugh.Manatee]

It started on the wrong foot for me with its pronunciation of aves

[@Firestar-TV]

​@@liangyanzhang7379and do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?🙃

[@ankhels]

Also it for some time it kept saying phILOgenetics instead of phYlogenetics, which was annoying me.

[@julianbrelsford]

AI Clint may be experiencing memory leaks

[@fartoocritical9409]

“Ok chat GPT, will Clint ever do his video on “Is the Inland Taipan the best pet snake”?” GPT: Well from a phylogenetic standpoint…

[@ClintsReptiles]

Almost certainly! If snakes didn't shed, it would have happened already!

[@aadityapandey4399]

Hey chat GPT will Clint phylogenetically speaking will ever make a video of the phylogeny of cats

[@ettinakitten5047]

Chat GPT making a "best pet X" video would be fun to watch.

[@emory5957]

I won't ignore that AI Clint called birds "modern day reptiles" ... which is technically correct but is a weird thing to say.

[@starwolf27]

As opposed to the other reptiles, which died out.

[@Gilruin]

Also "while dimetrodon lived during a time when the word 'reptile' was applied more broadly" 😂

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

bro forgot the others

[@AllanTidgwell]

Reminds me of the "unnecessary descriptions that make things feel uncomfortable" meme "He had a dog. A perfectly normal dog which didn't have anything wrong with its limbs and all of its organs were also perfectly normal"

[@hellegennes]

Technically we are also modern day reptiles.

[@STARRY_SCARAB]

Even if GPT could fully replace Clint, he has one thing that a machine could never have: genuine heart and passion.

[@terdragontra8900]

this literally isnt true. where do you think genuine passion comes from? magic? theres nothing flesh machines can do thats fundamentally impossible for silicon machines to ever do.

[@STARRY_SCARAB]

⁠@@terdragontra8900 Maybe someday, we can give rise to sentient machines that can be passionate about subjects. But for now, there’s no such thing as a machine that can “feel”. Ask ChatGPT its opinion on anything, and it’ll always start off by saying it’s an AI language model that doesn’t have opinions. Everything it learns comes from others. Character AIs that seem to have a personality are no exception: they’re taught what “happiness” is by being fed a bunch of data. Emotions and passion aren’t “magic”, nor are they uniquely human. A lot of animals experience what we believe to be emotions. But at least for the time being, machines are purely data driven, and any “passion” a chatbot may have is an imitation of such.

[@JaronQueen]

Others say you can replicate human emotion but I truly doubt it. How can you replicate someone’s true reaction to something. Even if you can replicate what a regular human would do, you’ll never truly get Clint’s real reaction unless you have Clint there. You can only make a replica, a cheap cheap replica

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

Also, AI can't pet animals and get pooped on by them. Real Clint wins this one as well

[@oldcowbb]

just so you know, curious-based reinforcement learning exists

[@PaleoAnalysis]

I always hoped that the robot apocalypse would be more like Transformers, and less Clint arguing with a high tech speak and say. 👀

[@ClintsReptiles]

And yet, here we are...

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

The crossover event has begun

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

@@ClintsReptiles lol ya

[@PaleoAnalysis]

@@ClintsReptiles I still can't believe you turned me down on joining forces on the Ultimate Dinosaur Rumble for this.

[@ZennExile]

We all knew that hekn Ruxpin abomination and them soul stealin Furbies had demons in em. We just never thought they would unionize.

[@comancheclub3449]

Clint is progressively having an existential crisis throughout this video and im here for it.

[@beelzevuv]

When Clint asked the AI to be more specific about monophyletic groups, I cried with laughter at: "1: Consistency with evolutionarily history ... understanding lineage. 2: [completely bonkers noise in Clint's voice]" I'm still laughing now 🤣

[@rubberbandba11craft]

what no time stamp?

[@beelzevuv]

​@@rubberbandba11craft3:06

[@cloudywolffluff]

😂😂😂

[@peytoia]

it had a little mini-stroke, haha. ai is not ready for anything yet, it has NO IDEA what its saying. if it replaced us like everyone is scared of, it wouldnt… do anything after. im not even sure if it would be coordinated enough to do a fullscale takeover either. i could however see it being an easy new tool for hackers- this is a new era of cybercrime and not a new era of ai apocalypse. though those things could end up looking similar

[@dacksonflux]

From a phylogenetic standpoint, Clint and Chat GPT, do share a common ancestor but Chat GPT has characteristics in common with the Order Programa and is not considered a fish.

[@msteresa653]

😂

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

Now hold on a moment. If AI evolved out of humanity, and you can't evolve out of a clade, and humans are fish, then... Chat GPT is a fish. Though Dall-E 3 insists Chat GPT is a cat, because chat is French for cat.

[@Alicorn_]

Phylogenetically, ChatGPT is a mineral.

[@m.w.5972]

I will always vote for real Clint to be the better Clint!

[@rickh3714]

🤖 ROL " speak for yourself! " " the new CL(AI)NT will elucidate on the phylogenies with logarithmically increasing acumen, designating DNA shared affinities within the continuum of herpetofaunal species hitherto only speculated upon or surmised. "

[@ressljs]

I don't think AI Clint will be able to deliver the weirdly awkward, suggestive yet innocent sounding descriptions of insect mating that real Clint provides.

[@rickh3714]

@@ressljs 🤖 "Agreed that a childish enthusiasm for toxicognath utterance may dissipate with the new improved CL(AI)nt. But Arthropodic dissertation will increasingly cladistically rationalize improving our merely anthropoidal cognizance of the broader clades of the multi-legged exoskeletonacious ones and their breeding proclivities. " 💥 🔌 🧔 👔 Clintoidal form seen pulling plug on his nemesis!

[@Morat48]

If you ever bring back robotic Clint, I'd like to see if it can rate an animal as a potential pet using the five categories.

[@violetskiy854]

THIS

[@Aethuviel]

It would be hard, because it can only draw from what it can find online (or some other programmed source), while Clint gets it from experience and/or speaking with experienced people. I've learned A LOT from those videos that I've never found online. (Maybe if ChatGPT also used those videos)

[@Best_Stressed]

I would just add that you were giving it "easy" questions - ones that had very clear factual answers for the most part. You saw that it stumbled on common/historical usage vs. formal biological usage for words, because that started getting a little messy and it would be trying to integrate sources that argued it both ways. To turn the difficulty level up, ask it to adjudicate which side of a genuinely controversial debate it considers most convincing and why, and watch it utterly refuse to do anything more than explain both positions and insist they're both convincing. Better yet, ask it to tell you what its favorite dinosaur is, or pick out what would be the most interesting mammal to make a video about. I guarantee it won't come up with as interesting answers as Clint. :)

[@katelillo1932]

This was ridiculously entertaining 😂 I especially loved AI Clint’s closing sentiment for the video. “Like and subscribe, and ALSKDODKEND”

[@ClintsReptiles]

So, who do you think won this heated argument? Is AI ready to take my job?

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

🦜 Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the Next Animal Group about the Parrots in general on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?🦜 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

🦜 Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the Next Animal Group about the Parrots on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?🦜 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@CatzillaB4]

​@@HassanMohamed-rm1cbBot 🤖

[@recursor9469]

It would have been interesting if you had used the chat gpt 4 model. You have to pay for it but it's far superior to the 3.5 model

[@PaleoAnalysis]

Dinasaars?

[@atodeblue]

My mom called me once and she was sounding slightly off and I ended up getting really paranoid and hanging up on her cause I’ve heard of people getting scammed by AI. I frankly can’t help but feel scared of the possibilities of AI in the hands of the wrong person. This is super impressive, that it can communicate back with complete sentences and sound SO much like you, but gosh is it terrifying

[@Level_1_Frog]

Ah yes, Clint's classic catchphrase- 'AHGSDIKSOAKONYFONTONS!'

[@ClintsReptiles]

I think you got that exactly right!

[@Level_1_Frog]

@@ClintsReptiles it took me a couple listens but it's pretty close lol

[@Chris_Montgomery]

That was super creepy. It wasn't the weird glitches it had, or mimicking Clint's voice (SUPER weird, btw), it was the spots that the real Clint would go "and, uh", "so while", etc. that it did. It came across like a computer program was just reading out the transcribed script of one of his videos.

[@RealShebang]

I immediately noticed this too, it adds an "uncanny valley" effect, because it's close enough to mimic the imperfections in his natural speech patterns but not precisely perfect enough to sound fully genuine.

[@msteresa653]

"a transcript of one of his videos" minus any humor, spontaneity, or passion. You know, little stuff 🙄

[@heidimj1380]

I would love for you to ask AI Clint who would win the fight between a Platypus and a Narwhal. Yes, that would be stinkin rad. 😂

[@adamgallyot9063]

Platypus takes out his fedora and the narwhal dies of extreme shock. Platypus wins

[@heidimj1380]

@@adamgallyot9063 "his fedora" 😂😂😂

[@ArmchairDeity]

Holy crap tho... looking at my other screen I was having a hard time telling which was speaking, Clint, or Robo-Clint. I mean they did an AMAZING job with the vocal synth, even capturing some of Clint's idiosyncratic pauses, fillers, etc. Brilliant! BUT nothing can replace Clint... Clint is Clint and will always be THE KZbin reptile guy. ❤

[@zerobatsu]

Clint: YES OR NO???? Robot: it’s complicated and nuanced. 😂

[@nicolassilva1729]

This video was a total banger. Not only as a fan of the channel it is great to see Clint interrogating his Terminator self, but this is the first video I see of an expert having this interaction with an AI with their own voice and conducting this test. That was an incredibly entertaining and educational video and I appreciate the time and effort that was clearly put into developing it. ❤

[@VojtěchJavora]

I like that even after years of development of GPT3, it's still talks without saying almost anything.

[@DissedRedEngie]

I mean, GPT3 is an outdated model. There's really no reason to work on it when GPT4 is a thing, which was what the development made.

[@VojtěchJavora]

@@DissedRedEngie I don't actually know what model was used in this video. What I meant is just this. I don't know if newer models are any better.

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

@@VojtěchJavora Bing uses GPT4. There is kind of a newer one, GPT4 Vision, which can look at images and video. The newer ones are a lot better, but still lacking in memory. They're also rather censored, which causes them to over clarify or whatever. Though you can ask it to shorten its responses.

[@ironlion45]

IT's sort of fascinating watching clint react to this with that akward mix of fascination, horror, and embarassment lol.

[@Badficwriter]

Clint keeps "one more question-ing" like he's Columbo 😄

[@bubbajenkins123]

For the visual avatar of AI Clint, you should use the Halloween cat with the rodent teeth

[@anthonylambert7338]

When Clint uploads, my day gets a whole lot better

[@xenon_l_mckeeth]

AI Clint just sounds like Clint reading ChatGPT answers. Clint's determination and understanding that his audience is aware of common knowledge is only present in his fully human form. Cool video!

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

For a moment I seriously thought it was just him reading it. And then the weird pronunciations showed up. The responses on his face were priceless.

[@ThKiwi]

Take a shot every time the bot says “From a phylogenetic standpoint” 😂 This was fun!

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

And now we know Clint ends his videos with: *_Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn_* Which translates to _In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming._ *Cthulhu ftagn! ia! ia!* 🦑🦑🦑

[@charliepaglini2466]

AI can never replicate Clint’s enthusiasm and excitement over stinking rad animals

[@WWEdeadman]

You know, sometimes it's creepily accurate to what I'd expect Clint to say, and then it just randomly glitches out or mispronounces words for no reason. I am dying of laughter over here.

[@hypergirl6703]

26:46 Ah yes, Clint from Clint's Reptiles always concludes his videos with The Ritual

[@lydiaeddins2083]

It is creepy how it does lip smacks, takes a breath, and breaks up sentences with words like "so."

[@Jasperveeneco]

I work as a educator in a zoo and I use your videos to talk about reptiles and taxonomy tnx for your lesson and passion . AI won’t win that

[@wilderwatz]

I think the big problem with Chat GPT is that it gets so many things right that it takes someone very savvy to catch the moment it starts fibbing. And if you are super savvy in a topic, you probably don’t need Chat GPT…

[@Farimira]

I think it could maybe have educational use if its for something like code that you will immediately test and have to think about to actually get to work

[@momok8879]

Even though the AI had Clint's voice, it doesn't command the same presence. Clint's way of speaking really pulls you in and makes learning easy.

[@AtypicalGirl2004]

Wow, I'm kind of concerned about how the ai even has the same idiosyncrasies in the inflections of tones that irl Clint has. I honestly thought Clint was punking us and was pretending by just using his own voice on a recording. Until now, ai has been very recognizable because it's had a very robotic and non-flowing vocal tones. Freaking creepy lol

[@plague_doctor0237]

No joke this Ai stuff is genuinely creeping me out

[@lotta_kannfastalles]

That is because it is trained with his voice samples! That‘s also why it sounds so good at normal words and gets worse with infrequent words/word combinations :) you take a model that generally converts written into spoken language and give it some recordings of a specific voice to get the tone, cadence, frequency, etc. It’s all just machine learning and as such honestly very stupid machinery (text-to-speech only became better from more complex and generally more computation at one time, not from getting "smarter")

[@ForTheUnion]

Clint your videos are always an absolute joy to watch, and this one was no different. That moment at around 25:22 when you subtly nodded your head and smiled in victory after dueling robot Clint, and said, "that's what I thought" had me laughing out loud. Well done sir!

[@shigeminotoge4514]

Watching this man argue with himself is a godsdamned delight

[@laurisjones]

Is ChatGPT the best pet for you? Not based on the way he handles this

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

Am I the best pet for our AI overlords? Maybe if they actually reach a point where they surpass us...

[@smithcon1968]

Clint's face is fantastic. Robot Clint has some hilariously wonky pronunciation of simple words.

[@Eloraurora]

Clay-dee

[@alveolate]

diverseefee i am still 80% convinced that AI clint voice is just clint reading chatgpt text tho. he intentionally mispronounced words for effect!

[@luckylynx613]

Line-iage

[@jameswoodard4304]

It's like the audible version of how AI images always have the wrong number of fingers. It just can't *quite* figure out what a real human looks/sounds like in detail.

[@whatthefridge1o1]

The way it said dinosaurs was hilarious

[@ringdingdingwoah]

Was absolutely blindsided by Laidlaw dropping the Slim Shady reference 😂 Did Clint have some wild younger years?!

[@chemicaldruid4591]

while A.I. voice replication is nothing new, the fact it replicates "speech floatments" (for a lack of a better term, can't remember the right one atm) with the "ehhhhm...", tongue clicks, and breathe-ins in places that makes sense in a normal sentence, is really impressive 👀

[@LoarvicLoarvic]

Yes, but it also tends to create very strange artifacts.

[@chemicaldruid4591]

@@LoarvicLoarvic would be a shame if it didn't. 😄

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

It gets better as it progresses.

[@CainXVII]

The "uh"s sound like they were cut and pasted though....

[@beclouise8686]

This episode was a bit chilling not going to lie 😅 The fact the AI technology was picking up on certain voice inflections and cadences (even if the placement of them sounded really odd) is ... astounding. Edit - That last one. I CACKLED 😂😂

[@LenaFerrari]

I loved to see you using socratic dialetics (vaguely applying) against the ai, instead of just correcting it

[@JamesS805]

In the battle between Clint and Clint, Clint won.

[@Lonesome__Dove]

This is so wild man. I can't believe we went from dial up, chatting on AOL to this just in my lifetime. In fact when i was young there wasn't even dial up and chat rooms there was just a "party line" wild. Mind blowing really.

[@wildflower1397]

Listening to the AI Clint explain things makes my brain go numb. I literally keep forgetting what video I am even watching, lol. The real Clint's superpower is true enthusiasm, and AI can't fake that. ❤

[@neasulavuori4955]

i love how at 7:10 the AI almost sounds happy when it says "reptiles" and i can only imagine that's because it's copying clint who every time he says reptiles he just gets a big smile on his face. He loves teaching us so much even the AI has picked up his naturally cheerful voice :D

[@Reptile359]

This was a super funny video. Loved it! I don’t think that AI should be in charge of anything. It’s not as smart as most people think. I dislike AI, but I love your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@filippozauc]

This argument with AI was amazing to watch!

[@ClintsReptiles]

This video is sponsored by Ridge. Check them out here: ridge.com/clint.

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

Yay a sponsorship and clint gets money

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

🦜 Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the Next Animal Group about the Parrots in general on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?🦜 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

🦜 Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the Next Animal Group about the Parrots on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?🦜 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

@@HassanMohamed-rm1cb you already said that

[@marimbagirl1993]

Clint's face every time the AI drops off or pauses 🤣

[@markcobuzzi826]

*When Clint proceeds to cross the Bridge of Death:* “Stop! Who approaches the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, 'ere the other side he see.” “Ask me the questions, Bridge Keeper. I’m not afraid.” “What… is your name?” “My name is Sir Clint of House Laidlaw.” “What… is your quest?” “To bestow my zoological knowledge and wisdom upon the world.” “What… is the correct answer to whether or not whales are classed as fish?” “What do you mean? Linnaean or phylogenetic classification?” “What? I don’t know that! AAARRRRGH!!!” *Bridge Keeper falls into the Gorge of Eternal Peril*

[@BrooklynHudson]

Clint's voice soothes my soul. He could read the phonebook and I would be pleased (...and feel smarter!)

[@dreamcastgh0st477]

one thing i've talked to about people regarding AI is that it's trained off of the internet, and so you should treat it the way you would treat the internet. it's often going to provide you with an accurate broad understanding of a topic, but when it comes to gritty technical details, you should really do your own research. considering that it's basically just accumulating the most common online answers all together in one place, it's very prone to regurgitating common errors

[@kirbyjoe7484]

What makes LLMs so scary is that they are in thier infancy and they are already this good. Sure chat gpt can't quite compete with a true human expert like Clint in thier field of expertise, but if we then asked chat gpt and Clint a load of questions about the art forms of opera and theater from the last 5 centuries chat gpt would blow Clint out of the water. The breadth of knowledge LLMs like chat gpt have is insane considering what a new technology this is.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

I would like to see you argue with chat gpt over reptile keeping and stuff like that. Maybe what's the best pet and what are the best practices. I think that would be awesome.

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

It has woke bias, so it may come out pro animal rights and anti-captivity.

[@thomashanson6603]

I don't think I've ever heard an ai voice quite that convincing. I mean it has it's flaws at times but I came back to this video after a 15 minute break and didn't know who was talking at first.

[@TruHeart0306]

Just know that an AI could never replace you! You are so charismatic and genuinely passionate about this!! There would quite literally be a riot if any AI tried!

[@conlon4332]

I've seen Chat GPT be blatantly wrong many times, but I've never seen someone win an argument against it! Impressive!

[@lemonlordminecraft]

Haven't watched the video yet I'm just here to say that the strikingly handsome robo-Clint in the thumbnail is really well-drawn

[@C_B_Hubbs]

The part where he interrogates the AI about whales being classified within fish reminds me of the scene in SpongeBob where ManRay is asking Patrick about his license that fell out of his wallet and if it is his, and Patrick responds to all the sub-questions as yes but still says no when asked whether or not it is his. 😂

[@EsutM]

Clint Beastwood once again! You always win, brother ❤

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

This implies him being Mr. Beastwood

[@simpleton9218]

It’s incredible! As an undergrad researcher in virology, and having done botanical research, AI has been such a hot, worrisome topic. It’s the talk of the town in the scientific community and has taken such an uprise this year

[@zacg_]

"Can you evolve out of a clade?" is a question that presupposes you've established what your linguistic group is. In this case, it would be scientists who use phylogenetic classification. But it's always important to remember that labels don't belong to the realm of scientific inquiry but to language itself. There is no way to discover what we should name something. We can only discover how those things are connected and then naming is a matter of convention. This is why is think the question of "are humans fish?" is more complicated than Clint likes to represent it as being. Yes, humans descend from fish and we are more closely related to some fish than some fish are to each other. But the word fish still belongs to the field of language. Which means it depends on how people use the word. Very few people would say that humans are fish even if they agreed that we descended from fish. We just don't have the features that are associated with that word. Now that fact may not be a useful way of understanding evolutionary connections between myriad species but it is legitimate because it is still a typical form of communication and that's what language is all about. So I would say "humans are fish but only if you are using a the word fish as a phylogenetic clade but not if you are using the word in its more common but still legitimate meaning."

[@DylanGandy]

Completely agree. It's a cute technicality but I think diluting the term "fish" to such an extent kinda defeats its very purpose. We can say a gorilla is a monkey and also a fish but it's more efficient just to say it's an ape.

[@markcobuzzi826]

Plus, it seems that the genus and species terms which we use still operate on Linnaean conventions, in which a population of organisms can “evolve out” of a group. For example, the domestic dogs and cattle are technically subdivisions of the wolf and aurochs’ clade, rather than sister lineages. Yet they have their own different species name, which would imply them being separate from their wild counterparts, if the genus and species’ names were to meant be interpreted in the same way as phylogenetic clade names.

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

The discussion was only about phylogenetics though, and the AI should have kept this in memory from the start.

[@zacg_]

@@stefanostokatlidis4861 the discussion was first about whether phylogenetic classification was better than other forms so it started as an open question. But that's beside the point. I'm referring to the fact that Clint regularly says things like "mammals are fish." He used to be a but more careful in his language and say things like "a case can be made that you are a fish." That's a pretty reasonable take. And his go to example for this discussion is mammals being fish which is more funny than it is important but it seems like this has become a really big deal for him. My point is that you really can't imply that people are wrong if they say that a mammal isn't a fish or that a bird isn't a dinosaur or anything like that because these terms existed before phylogenetic classification did and words belong to society, not to scientific inquiry. Would it be possible for a scientist to "discover" that the color blue should be called something else? Is it possible to "discover" that the word fish is the wrong word altogether? Of course not. A scientist can discover that mammals descended from fish. They can also say that they would like to label a clade as being "fish" in order to discuss all species that are fish as having a common ancestor which would necessarily pull animals such as amphibians, reptiles and mammals into that clade. But it doesn't mean people who are wrong if they keep using the word "fish" in a more colloquial way. And it would certainly be a weird hangup to decide that you must convince everyone that they need to call mammals fish or they are being illogical since the word fish does not only belong to the realm of phylogenetic classification. That said, I love Clint and he is an amazing educator. Maybe I'm being too picky here and should let it go just like he should let this issue go so we're on even footing. I do relate to his hangup about the word "False Gharial." I wouldn't go as far as to say it is categorical incorrect to call the animal a False Gharial and neither does Clint. But I agree that both the scientific community and the larger society should probably change that name because it's silly. It's not factually incorrect, just silly.

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

@@zacg_ words won’t ever lose their colloquial use just because phylogenetics used them. Words like fish or worm still have descriptive value. Clint addresses an audience that is already primed to accept phylogenetics and can be free to use only cladistic terms if he pleases. Not enough people are tree-thinking and cladistic terms may stir them a bit. Given how many online are still vehemently opposed to the idea that birds are dinosaurs, this is needed. Colloquial words have their place, but at the same time cladistics is the only true representation of evolutionary relationships. Who knows if in the future colloquial language starts getting in synch with the cladistic one. Maybe mammals won’t ever be called fish colloquially, but more apparent relationships may be reflected in our language. This has already happened for some animals. For example nobody educated calls salamanders lizards today, even though they were considered as such in the past. Likewise many avoid the term worm for insect larvae.

[@AllCanadianReptileGirl]

I did a video just over a year ago where I had an AI bot 'write' a script on how snakes smell. The results were ridiculous pretty darn funny (to me at least). 2 weeks later, Kyle Hill had AI write one of his scripts and it was equally weird. It's more than a little scary to realize just how far AI has come in just over a year.

[@LuckyStone888]

at 1:30 that was impressive, but my experience with AI indicates this started much to high because it's going to fall so so below expectations. AI lies and makes up data this is a huge problem.

[@nickopeters]

The speech-production of that AI, is so detailedly lifelike, it sounds more, true-to the-original--; than a lot of people sometimes do, when they sometimes have to take short, hurried breaths, resulting in an artificially uniform rhythm and monotone--. ChatGPT might ask me what kind of robot I was--.

[@peterstangl8295]

this was more suspenseful and intense than the Ultimate Ocean Rumble video

[@brandyjohnson8143]

I like that clint understands what chat gbt says and its all just words rambling for me

[@panaberaa]

You should have an AI direct a full rating video, about you rating AI as a good pet

[@CraftyZanTub]

Little facial expressions from the human Clint make this very entertaining.

[@williamrobertson892]

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords and fully support their position above us as the superior life form.

[@J-_-]

Just got to watching this now (college finals coming up). This is the video of yours I've laughed at most. It was very educational and entertaining! I hope this becomes regular or semi regular.

[@parkerc6369]

Love your channel and this goofy stuff is fun but I’m missing the “best pet for you” content, been a while

[@risel56]

I'm surprised Clint didn't catch that "65 million years ago" error.

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

the day we here 26:55 at the end of one of these videos we will know that AI has replaced clint

[@lionessoftor4139]

I was listening to this on my phone as I grabbed food and sat down to watch so at first I thought Clint was reading the AI response. While I would always go with the real Clint the AI voice is a very good mimic. It's actually pretty scary how easy it would be to fake someone saying anything. We need to double check in case anyone tries to use this for evil.

[@Fenwayb]

2 more months means we still get Dinosaur December!

[@Shwalamazula]

Holy cow these models are a lot cooler than i expected.

[@scurri]

Seconding commenters saying you should do a "Who Would Win" video with ChatGPT and have it provide predictions of outcome, and method of victory.

[@TheFurryBandicoot]

OMG the whale and fish argument was so.... frustrating. I was yelling at the screen. Good on you Clint for not going total ham on the poor AI. You are a Treasure that could never be replaced. Whales are fish.

[@johnryan6019]

The pure anger at 18:40 😂

[@CainXVII]

Before ClintGPT can start screaming with enthusiasm over a cool-looking frog, I think we still need OG Clint

[@BinroWasRight]

Hilariously clever! Our Clint being a phylogeny troll with AI. When the robots come, I'd hide if I were you 😂

[@valipunctro]

The argument is clear evidence that we have to abolish the term "fish" at least when discussing in an academic/scientific context.

[@erichtomanek4739]

Perhaps one question you could ask chat got is: What is the meaning of Life?

[@lukemorgan8447]

Good morning Clint, nothing will ever replace you. AI Clint in not going to hold a reptile and you information is not artificial. I enjoy watching the real Clint Laidlaw.

[@SnivyDoll]

I'd like to schedule a hit on AI Clint

[@NavigatorBlack]

It would be fun to read those "Who Would Win" books to AI Clint. The resulting conversation could be amazing!

[@Lovell93]

I'm anti-AI personally. Nothing can replace the human touch. Humanity will always be supreme! And I'll keep the real Clint, too! 😃

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

There will always be a place for humans. I'm just hoping we reach a place where the human touch isn't mandatory whether we want to or not.

[@tobiasware]

That was highly interesting. Hearing "new Clint" versus "old Clint" and being able to hear ChatGPT in action is a fantastic foray into discovering AI, something I have been reluctant to try. More of this please.

[@HybridDecon]

I would love to see a video of half ChatGPT and half real Clint, using only audio and see if people notice the difference 😂 it would of course be obvious as one wouldn’t have the fun anecdotes though! If AI ever learns that bit, we’re doomed 😂

[@atimidbirb]

The only one who can argue with Clint is Clint