Swarm Intelligence is the academic field of study of this going on over 30 years now.
Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges
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Re: Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges
#12If you find this cool, you might find some other ant behaviors cool! I tried compiling the best I could find here - https://www.reddit.com/r/anterestingasfuck I'm also trying to program a digital ant farm: https://ant.care/ (code: https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/ ) I really want to figure out how to have ants form bridges/towers to navigate gaps. It's on the roadmap for long-term goals, but there's a lot more to…
>I'm also trying to program a digital ant farm: https://ant.care/ Totally off topic, but your domain reminded me of: https://antville.org JS on the server-side (On JVM since the late 90's)
Huh, cool. Thanks for sharing! Do you know why it's called antville?
Re: Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges
#13Swarm Intelligence is the academic field of study of this going on over 30 years now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
Why don't autonomous vehicles use swarm intelligence? Why are the companies trying to make a sufficiently advanced AI for each car, isolated from others, instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics ?
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#14(Fire) Ant rafts are very cool: https://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/The_Ant_Raft.html ("ants as fluids" linked at the top of that page grabbed my attention a few years ago; myrmycology meets physics, rather than "just" the robotics angle - see again a few paragraphs further below) An article about Nathan Mlot's work, vintage 2011: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/fire-ants... (Outcomes for the ants are…
The horrifying things about fire ant rafts is that in floods, like after hurricanes and tropical storms on the US gulf coast, whole colonies will raft in the floodwaters. Now think of all the pictures you've seen of people wading through post-storm floods.
Re: Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges
#15Swarm Intelligence is the academic field of study of this going on over 30 years now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
Why don't autonomous vehicles use swarm intelligence? Why are the companies trying to make a sufficiently advanced AI for each car, isolated from others, instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics ?
The car will go on the road with cars, people and animals outside of its control. Either it copes or somebody dies. Simple as
Re: Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges
#16If you find this cool, you might find some other ant behaviors cool! I tried compiling the best I could find here - https://www.reddit.com/r/anterestingasfuck I'm also trying to program a digital ant farm: https://ant.care/ (code: https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/ ) I really want to figure out how to have ants form bridges/towers to navigate gaps. It's on the roadmap for long-term goals, but there's a lot more to…
> I'm also trying to program a digital ant farm: https://ant.care/ (code: https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/)
this is really cool!
Re: Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges
#17Swarm Intelligence is the academic field of study of this going on over 30 years now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
Why don't autonomous vehicles use swarm intelligence? Why are the companies trying to make a sufficiently advanced AI for each car, isolated from others, instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics ?
I think to some degree it will play a part, esp. once most of the vehicles have autonomous functionality. But without that homogeny and having to deal with many outside variables it's not enough.
There's a huge boon to be had esp. with traffic shaping.
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#18Swarm Intelligence is the academic field of study of this going on over 30 years now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
Why don't autonomous vehicles use swarm intelligence? Why are the companies trying to make a sufficiently advanced AI for each car, isolated from others, instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics ?
It would be nice if I could carry a beacon detectable by every autopilot when I walk
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#19This kind of behavior has resulted in an amazing class of “Swarm Intelligence” algorithms that somehow never gained widespread adoption. The classic SFI reference that I invested some time working through a few years ago is: https://amzn.to/3GdKJ9o
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why don't autonomous vehicles use swarm intelligence? Why are the companies trying to make a sufficiently advanced AI for each car, isolated from others, instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics ?
It would be nice if I could carry a beacon detectable by every autopilot when I walk
A smartphone can fill that role, no?