Swiss Experimenter Breeds Swarm Intelligence 144
destinyland writes "Researchers simulated evolution with multiple generations of food-seeking robots in a new study of artificial swarm intelligence. 'Under some conditions, sophisticated communication evolved,' says one researcher. And in a more recent study, the swarms of bots didn't just evolve cooperative strategies — they also evolved the ability to deceive. ('Forget zombies,' joked one commenter. 'This is the real threat.') 'The study of artificial swarm intelligence provides insight into the nature of intelligence in general, and offers an interesting perspective on the nature of Darwinian selection, competition, and cooperation.' And there's also some cool video of the bots in action."
Of all the countries... (Score:5, Funny)
to counteract (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Of all the countries... (Score:5, Funny)
The ability to deceive? (Score:5, Funny)
they also evolved the ability to deceive.
Obviously, once you've proved the entity has the ability to deceive, you must distrust any further results.
Re:Of all the countries... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:to counteract (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, not a bad way to poison a bot's intelligence. Its been done before, with hilarious results (well, if you like 4chan-style humor), with a chatbot called Bucket. It was designed to pick up the basics of the English language and conversation techniques from random internet users.
Then 4chan found it.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Bucket [encycloped...matica.com] has the full story, along with quotes and screenshots.
Re:Of all the countries... (Score:4, Funny)
yeah but those clocks... you can set your watch by them!
Re:The ability to deceive? (Score:3, Funny)
They are "deceiving" each other, not the researchers...
That's just what they want you to think...