How Hacking Honeybees Brings AI Closer to the Hive

If you ask a team of British computer scientists, the wisdom of the hive is more than just a poetic turn of phrase. These researchers have in fact studied the brains of honey bees to develop a new kind of machine intelligence for decision-making.

While a bee’s life looks simple on the surface—flitting through the air, sampling nectar and pollinating plants wherever they land—the decision-making process behind that seeming random walk is more complex than meets the eye. A basic …

bees brains computer decision decision making hacking hive intelligence kind life machine machine intelligence making neuromorphic computing researchers scientists simple team