r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Natchos09 • 2d ago

Ants making smart maneuver

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u/SegelXXX 2d ago edited 2d ago

A colony of ants operates similarly to a brain with each ant acting like a single neuron. They communicate by smell and their language is pheromones. It's incredibly complex. This is a great way to visualize it.

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u/Prestigious_Pace_108 2d ago

So this isn't intelligence right? Rhetorical question of course.

This is probably how the gen AI will happen. Parallelism.

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u/SegelXXX 2d ago edited 2d ago

It is a type of intelligence. It's swarm intelligence (hello StarCraft). It's very very fascinating.

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u/nobody-u-heard-of 2d ago

I was thinking hive mind

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u/Sailans 2d ago

That's bees