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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discover magazine's "Invasion of the Insect Robots"
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.063506.28939@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 91 06:35:06 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.201920.18088@evax.arl.utexas.edu> mullen@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Dan Mullen) writes:
>I find it rather ironic that after almost a half century of research in
>"artificial intelligence" we have humbly accepted our limitations and
>assumed the task of modeling insects.   I remember reading once that 
>a mosquito with its paltry 10,000 neurons is infinitly more intelligent
>than our fastest super-computer.  I'm not argueing on either side of that.
>My point is simply that modeling insects is a good place to start. Maybe
>soon there will be the small rodent robot and then the farm animal robot. 
>Maybe an entire robot farm, and then .....       d.m.
	I agree that trying to create low intelligence is a good start,
yet there is no purpose in having 80 artificial cows.  They can't
do anything better than us, so why use them? (Or were you joking?)


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