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Discovery News has two interesting articles. First, insect AI:
But a small organism doesn’t have so many cells to control and can fit some very elaborate mental circuitry in a pinhead-sized brain.
Several hundred neurons give the ability to count. A few thousand create sentient, and perhaps even sapient, thought. If that’s really the [...]
Teaching computers instead of programming them. Makes sense. Robot surrogates in the workplace. I feel like I am the robot sometimes. The perfect woman? (Ugh. Seriously, IEET?) Prosthetic limbs give an advantage? The definitive answer: maybe. Are human explorers actually better than robots or do we just need better robots? [...]
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