Paul McDevitt
Stone the crows
MORE human jobs lost to AI – that is, Avian Intelligence. The Puy du Fou theme park in the west of France has hired six corvids to pick up litter. The rooks have been trained to retrieve cigarette butts and other small bits of detritus, which they can deposit in a box to earn a food reward.
So far, so good. But Feedback suspects the site owners may be underestimating their feathered employees. How long before the six birds grow tired of working for chicken feed and decide to unionise? Or will the canny corvids begin subcontracting the…
