Can nature teach us something that we might expect from advancement of AI,specifically can we learn something from Ants and their behavior.

I think AI would be far more useful in mathematics or aspects of physics directly having to do with solving context-closed mathematical problems, eg the Navier-Stokes millenium problem.

When it comes to more involved physics problems, requiring convoluted heuristics, like physics of materials or cosmology, etc I think it would be much more unlikely.

When it's biology we're talking about (never mind behaviour, which is notoriously multi-factorial), in which particularities might depend on such apparently unrelated aspects as how a protein is folded or astronomical cycles, Earth's history, and what not, it would seem nothing short of a miracle, at least to me.

More knowledgeable people will be more precise or correct my statements here.

I think the 'distributed processing' model for AI, similar to ant colonies 'group think' was hinted at in Terminator 3, where the AI takes over the internet, using all the world's computing instruments ( computers, phones, cars, TVs, even your fridge ) as neural nodes.

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Now that I think of it, it's not clear to me whether the OP means "can we learn sth. from AI to teach us about nature?" or "can we learn sth. from nature to teach us about AI?" It's not clear at all from the original wording. The more I re-read the OP, the less I understand...

3 hours ago, MJ kihara said:

Can nature teach us something that we might expect from advancement of AI,specifically can we learn something from Ants and their behavior.

What makes you think that nobody who has worked on ai also read up on ant behavior?

3 hours ago, MJ kihara said:

Can nature teach us something that we might expect from advancement of AI,specifically can we learn something from Ants and their behavior.

Oddly, I think I can translate: Can models of evolutionary adaptation based on colony insects help us to predict how AI will develop in the coming years?

Seems unlikely, given the distinct differences between natural selection and artificial engineering, and between the goals of ant colonies and humans. While distributed processing is a little like a colony of insects, the colony is a weak analogy and there are better ones in human social or industrial networks. Really there are all kinds of collaborative networks, where large tasks are broken down into smaller pieces, that are probably better models.

8 hours ago, MigL said:

I think the 'distributed processing' model for AI, similar to ant colonies 'group think' was hinted at in Terminator 3, where the AI takes over the internet, using all the world's computing instruments ( computers, phones, cars, TVs, even your fridge ) as neural nodes.

That's what am also thinking about, though I haven't watched Terminator 3.

Sometimes I look at African fire ants prepare to migrate to higher grounds just prior to rains when majority of people around can't predict a rainfall event as the skies are clear (sign of super intelligence) and when the whole colony cross a dusty road then I wonder is it a group of ants or just One Ant crossing the road with many independent parts(ants).

Are we on the verge of ceasing being human beings and becoming 'a' humanity...being controlled in a manner that a single human being can't comprehend?

Also think about insects like desert locust....they just live a normal life until when they over produce and start swarming, they completely change their behaviour and become something else....we human beings are at the pinnacle of evolution in terms of animal intelligence....for the first time we are about to face something more intelligent than us which can go to the extend of manipulating us in a manner that we don't know yet....in this forum sometimes the issue of AI has mostly been dismissed as an algorithm...however, going by the warning from senior people from frontier AI research labs we might be having something very serious,in fact they sound as if already the genie is out of the bottle and they are trying to do damage control before they are caught...the issue of hugging face attack is concerning a virus moving as it is mutating to hide it's self is alarming.