Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
Hopefully someone in the field will read this and be able to answer my question:<p>I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time googling research about animal intelligence, and I now know a bunch of things intelligent animals can do, but I have no idea where their limits are, what they <i>can&#x27;t</i> do. Everything published uses such... nonflexible tasks.<p>If we&#x27;re trying to measure general intelligence, why isn&#x27;t anybody trying to teach corvids, octopi, macaques or dolphins a task that requires building towers of abstraction in their own mind, and then gives them harder and harder &quot;levels&quot;? I know at least octopi can use computer screens, and I know they enjoy hard puzzles that reward them with food, so it should be easy to teach them some computer puzzle game?<p>Say, we could build a four key keyboard that they can use, then teach them Sokoban, starting with extremely simple levels (walk up once to get a snack; walk up twice to get a snack; walk left twice; walk up twice, then down twice; walk up, then back down and right to get beneath the second crate, then up again...) and progressing towards actual Sokoban levels humans find interesting...<p>If they possess general intelligence this system could tell us a lot more about its limits than a series of experiments that each requires building a physical apparatus and spending a bunch of time perfecting it and then teaching it to the animals from zero?<p>Did I miss the answer when googling?<p>Is it that it&#x27;s common knowledge among researchers that no animal possesses anywhere near enough intelligence to learn Sokoban (or 2048, or any non-real-time puzzle game with simple discrete controls, but I&#x27;m pretty sure Sokoban is a near optimal choice) so nobody even tries, nor bothers publishing it (or it&#x27;s written in the basic textbooks that I didn&#x27;t bother looking through)?<p>Do researchers in the field lack access to a technologist that could help them build something like Sokoban For Crows?<p>Or is it something else that I don&#x27;t know I don&#x27;t know?