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Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-show-this-to-the-left-4-dead-guys dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From optimizing truck delivery routes to inspiring nerve-cell-based cognition models, ant intelligence has arrived. From the Economist: 'In 1992 Dr. Dorigo and his group began developing Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO), an algorithm that looks for solutions to a problem by simulating a group of ants wandering over an area and laying down pheromones. ACO proved good at solving travelling-salesman-type problems. Since then it has grown into a whole family of algorithms, which have been applied to many practical questions. ... Ant-like algorithms have also been applied to the problem of routing information through communication networks. Dr. Dorigo and Gianni Di Caro, another researcher at IDSIA, have developed AntNet, a routing protocol in which packets of information hop from node to node, leaving a trace that signals the "quality" of their trip as they do so. Other packets sniff the trails thus created and choose accordingly. In computer simulations and tests on small-scale networks, AntNet has been shown to outperform existing routing protocols."

6 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. /.'rs disagree. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Government can do it better.

  2. The Ant Networking Protocol was a huge success by cyber-vandal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until it passed by a group of people having a picnic.

    1. Re:The Ant Networking Protocol was a huge success by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      or until someone breaks out the Magnifying Lens Protocol.

  3. Re:Swarm UDP? by bhcompy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those blast marks on that router are too precise for sand people

  4. Obligatory... by Totenglocke · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you incorporate Swarm intelligence into computer AI? Simple - SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!

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    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
  5. Console message by jewishbaconzombies · · Score: 3, Funny

    >format /dev/fd0

    >ANT: We must save the queen!
    >ANT: Which one of us is the queen?
    >ANT: I'm the queen!
    >ANT: No, I'm the queen!
    (smashing of glass sound)
    >ANT: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!