There is such a thing as the United Colonies of Ants!

  • 1 Replies
  • 1423 Views
*

frankinstien

  • Replicant
  • ********
  • 658
    • Knowledgeable Machines
There is such a thing as the United Colonies of Ants!
« on: August 15, 2021, 11:40:30 pm »
A supercolony of ants is actually made up of many smaller colonies, they do genetically separate themselves for mating but they are not aggressive to one another and even collaborate. The largest supercolony is 3,700 miles and is composed of billions of ants, they're called Argentine ants.

So the question I have is: Should we call this type of super organization a nation? I mean here's a different form of life that is organizing itself in a complex way that is about harmonizing other colonies to unite as one. If the ants had starships we'd certainly call their organization a nation.  The ant only has 250,000 neurons but does things modern neural networks still can't do: here's an article that address that issue.

« Last Edit: August 16, 2021, 07:40:35 pm by frankinstien »

*

MagnusWootton

  • Replicant
  • ********
  • 650
Re: There is such a thing as the United Colonies of Ants!
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2021, 06:34:21 am »
250,000 neurons,  but what magic is controlling them?

 


LLaMA2 Meta's chatbot released
by spydaz (AI News )
August 24, 2024, 02:58:36 pm
ollama and llama3
by spydaz (AI News )
August 24, 2024, 02:55:13 pm
AI controlled F-16, for real!
by frankinstien (AI News )
June 15, 2024, 05:40:28 am
Open AI GPT-4o - audio, vision, text combined reasoning
by MikeB (AI News )
May 14, 2024, 05:46:48 am
OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning Demo
by MikeB (AI News )
March 31, 2024, 01:00:53 pm
Say good-bye to GPUs...
by MikeB (AI News )
March 23, 2024, 09:23:52 am
Google Bard report
by ivan.moony (AI News )
February 14, 2024, 04:42:23 pm
Elon Musk's xAI Grok Chatbot
by MikeB (AI News )
December 11, 2023, 06:26:33 am

Users Online

428 Guests, 1 User

Most Online Today: 443. Most Online Ever: 2369 (November 21, 2020, 04:08:13 pm)

Articles