Even though we all recognize bees for their importance in the food chain as pollinators, the crafty creatures have a series of other talents, including math ability, face recognition, and even tool use.
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Bees are sentient': inside the stunning brains of nature's hardest workers (2023)
www.theguardian.com
... This March, Buchmann released a book that unpacks just how varied and powerful a bee's mind really is. The book, What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories and Personalities of Bees, draws from his own research and dozens of other studies to paint a remarkable picture of bee behavior and psychology.
It argues that bees can demonstrate sophisticated emotions resembling optimism, frustration, playfulness and fear, traits more commonly associated with mammals. Experiments have shown bees can experience PTSD-like symptoms, recognize different human faces, process long-term memories while sleeping, and maybe even dream.
Buchmann is part of a small but growing group of scientists doing what he calls "fringe" research seeking to understand the full emotional capacity of bees. His research has radically changed the way he relates to the insects " not only does he now avoid killing them in his house, he has also significantly reduced lethal and insensitive treatment of specimens for his research.
"Two decades ago, I might have treated a bee differently," Buchmann says. ...
Posted in 2021. It's real.
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Gonna need more than your personal assurance bro.
AI was available in 2021.
From venturebeat.com
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As we head into 2022, here's a quick look back at the milestones that shaped the AI space over the past 12 months.
To start the year, OpenAI announced DALL-E, a multimodal AI system that generated images from text. The company asserted that DALL-E could manipulate and rearrange objects in generated imagery and also create things that don't exist, like a cube with the texture of a porcupine or a chair that looks like an avocado.
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Or possibly bees opening a bottle of soda? Y
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