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Robot fun fact: The smartest robots don’t follow orders. They learn to cooperate. Here’s why: 1. No central commander. Each robot in a swarm follows simple, local rules — like ants or bees. No one robot knows the full plan, yet the group completes complex tasks together. 2) Emergent intelligence. When these independent agents interact, patterns form. The group begins to learn — adapting, problem-solving, and even recovering from failures — without being told how. 3) Resilience through cooperation. Systems built on control often break when conditions change. But systems built on cooperation self-correct. They evolve. The inverse is true, too. The more we try to command intelligence, the less adaptable it becomes. Maybe the next breakthrough in AI won’t come from building smarter machines — but from teaching them to work together. Citation: Zheng, Z., Wang, T., Xiang, Y., Lei, X., & Peng, X. (2024). Emergence of Collective Intelligence in Swarm Robotics. https://lnkd.in/ghcxqvwn
Tim Keller
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I don’t know… Boston dynamics has been kicking and shoving their robots for so long that any procedural optimization algorithm is bound to figure out that removing the humans is a key to uninterrupted productivity.
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4wInteresting. I may have seen “I Robot” too recently to embrace this wholeheartedly as success, but it is intriguing 🤔