dailygalaxy.com — Researchers at the University of York have investigated large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. The multi-robot approach to artificial intelligence is a relatively new one, and has developed from studies of the swarm behavior of social insects such as ants.
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Closed AccountJan 9, 2009
ha, fair enough
protodonJan 9, 2009
Yes they will become their own species. I firmly believe that synthetic life will become so advanced that it ill be indistinguishable from organic life
felixdaahackJan 10, 2009
YES
khastJan 10, 2009
I don't know, I don't trust the idea....I think I will keep something that generates a huge burst of EMP nearby...
ziggy7273Jan 11, 2009
You can't reach for the stars if your dead.
graehJan 11, 2009
yet again - value is found from reverse engineering the evolutionary selected solution in nature. It too 3.5 billion years to get us where we are today as living entities, if you want to emulate a behaviour found in nature, chances are actually looking in nature, instead of cooking up your own one out of the blue might hold some value. There was a fantastic TED (almost a tautology) video from a robotics guy who found he had great success by identifying how entities in nature overcame the problems presented to him in robot engineering. He filmed creatures large and small in slow mo high def doing what they do that he wanted his robots to do. The almost instant apparent successes he got in ambulatory solutions - non adhesive vertical travel (haxored the functionality of a gecko).If you're trying to do something that is done well by nature, there can be value to appreciating the distilling and refinement process of functionality evolution has allowed over such a vast time period.Hell - I'm just a creative - but I like to get my hands on a lot of biology and anthropology documentaries - because I think that there's value to appreciating that the audience of the interactive s**t I make at whatever soulless ad agency I'm at - is an animal evolved and still evolving through an unimaginable 3.5 billion years or so. Human beings have selected traits which you can exploit or recognise and account for to inform usability, mood, creative...It took us 3.5 billion years to emerge in this state through selection - it might be worth keeping into account that's something you can use to further bond people to your work - as opposed so many tech producers and developers I worked with - who ignored the marvel of the human animal, its strengths and idiosyncracies, and hacked up some half assed counter-engaging approach instead.
muzfuzJan 11, 2009
Lol don't digg him down, its hilarious.
joviaMay 12, 2009
we shall reach for new things, and figure ways to blow stars up.