| ▲ | greymalik 2 hours ago |
| Adrian Tchaikovsky explores each of these kinds of intelligence across his sci-fi Children of Time trilogy. |
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| ▲ | shostack 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yes, and the third book, Children of a Memory, which features the corvids, is particularly interesting in the age of AI and questioning what intelligence really is. |
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| ▲ | Computer0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Spiders? |
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| ▲ | Vetch 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Jumping spiders are the geniuses of their size/energy tier. It almost makes no sense that so few neurons should be so capable, but my favorite hypothesis is that nature golf coded a specially tuned, unexpectedly flexible, highly optimized recurrent architecture that sequentially overthinks to simulate a far higher intelligence level than its size profile would suggest. | |
| ▲ | olivermuty 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are written like mammals in this book, just with a different way of comminucating. Tiger shrimp are also in the picture eventually. | | |
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