Swarms key to AI?
Interesting approach to artificial intelligence based on swarming behaviour. From The Economist, Aug 12th 2010:
Riders on a swarm
Mimicking the behaviour of ants, bees and birds started as a poor man’s version of artificial intelligence. It may, though, be the key to the real thing
AI – using emotions
A robot that makes decisions based on “emotions” in order to save computation time — hmm, sounds like humans! Reference to the OCC psychological model (1988) that was used to define the emotions in terms of objects, actions and events.
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Although it started out as a means of practising expressing myself, this blog is turning out to be more of a compendium of interesting information I come across. One of these days I’ll have to actually write something as opposed to cut and paste. 
