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From: sas@BBN-VAX.ARPA (Seth Steinberg)
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Subject: Re: Doing AI Backwards
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Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 09:26:00 EDT
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Yes, memory seems to be a scarce resource.  There was an article in
Science on learning in bees, which explains that bees tend to collect
pollen from one type of flower during a period of time because there is
a cost to learning about a new one.  In addition, learning a new flower
squeezes out knowledge about other previously learned flowers.

In other words, a bee can be an expert on one kind of flower at a time
because of memory limitations.

There have been a number of interesting bee articles lately.  Writing a
computer system to emulate a bee's behavior might be an interesting
approach.  Apparently they can recognize landmarks, learn approaches to
flowers, learn which flowers are obnoxious, communicate locations of
pollen, reason about locations and a host of other things, all in a
brain comparable in size to a large IC.

					Seth

P.S. Oh yeah, read the next message.  That's right ....