The research team hopes the simulated bee brain will produce a robot that can make decisions about what it senses rather than just carry out pre-programmed tasks.
They will be more knowledgeable, will adhere perfectly to centralized mandates and will deliver consistent, on-task, pre-programmed lessons to their students.
Most AI systems are "narrow", training pre-programmed agents to master a particular task and not much else.
The behavior of these agents can be designed a priori, although in some scenarios, this is a difficult task or this pre-programmed behavior is undesired.
Supporting various applications of digital fabrication and manufacturing, the industrial robot is typically assigned repetitive tasks for specific pre-programmed and singular applications.
However, a recent development is the beginning of a new era of AI, in which AI can perform complex tasks and must no longer rely on pre-programmed rules for decision-making.
In this research, the interviewees were asked to describe incidents when they were making requests and seeking responses in data for specific tasks, but produced unique results that had not been pre-programmed or anticipated.
Importantly, they can use radios in their abdomens to communicate with each other, allowing them to coordinate their movements like an actual ant colony and, based on pre-programmed rules, solve problems, and collectively complete complex, diverse, and large-scale tasks efficiently.
Either you can use pre-programmed beats, which often works very well, or program it yourself.
The complexity of many tasks arising in these domains makes them difficult to solve with pre-programmed agent behaviors.
These are conversational programs that can respond to verbal prompts, ideal for answering basic, pre-programmed questions.
