Re: AI

Beth Fulton wrote:

> >You don't have to have something much smarter than an ant, or at best
a
> >frog, to be really useful.
> 
> Though not military AI I know of a lot of work on AIs (for robot
> navigation) which are currently underway and based on
ants/bees/various
> other insects/owls/toads and a hedgehog (that one's got me stumped
too).

Didn't know about the Hedgehog. Mammals are complex, orders of magnitude
of orders of magnitude (not a misprint) more rich and complex in
behaviour than amphibians. I suspect they're only modelling one small
instinctive facet of its behaviour.
Any URLs handy? 

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