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Artificial Intelligence

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Is There a Future for Artificial Intelligence?

In the lab, we have around 50 robots. We do essentially experiments where we model the kind of social behaviours that are observed in ants and no social insects. They're not smart enough to be able to move well, very much hon anything other than a perfectly smooth surface. But they've been able to figure out things that the ant biologists haven't really worked out. So here's an example. Some ants do what we call division of labour. And they actually seem to adapt the o of foragers. Tan resters or loafers in the nest,. somehow to er balance, if you like, you to track the amount of food in the environment. The question for the biologist is,

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