Dogs' Intelligence and Understanding

Discussions focus on dogs' ability to comprehend human language, gestures, and intent, their trainability through tricks and rewards, and comparisons to AI capabilities or human-animal communication gaps.

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jcims Jun 15, 2022 View on HN

Why do dogs seem to ‘understand’ us to an extent but we struggle to understand dogs?

postalrat Apr 10, 2022 View on HN

It's hard to say if that's intelligence or just one dog more interested in what your are saying than the other.

Peritract Mar 17, 2023 View on HN

I trust that you're familiar enough with dogs to tell barking apart from talking.

ThinkBeat Mar 30, 2024 View on HN

Why not use real dogs? They are really good at this.

mirceal Jul 29, 2019 View on HN

hah. my dog will perform the said tricks if food is involved. if no food... it's anyone's guess what's going to happen.

noncoml Mar 28, 2023 View on HN

I taught my dog to bark twice when I ask him how much is one plus one, and thrice when I ask him one plus two. Doesn’t mean my dog is “intelligent”

foreigner Jan 9, 2022 View on HN

Has anybody managed to teach this to a dog?

jollyllama Oct 24, 2023 View on HN

Dogs too, apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37948121

gadders Oct 3, 2025 View on HN

I wonder what dogs would thing of us.

JoeAltmaier Feb 9, 2017 View on HN

Be honest - "in dogs, its a matter of course". Lets not paste human social constructs on an animal.