Have you ever sat in a traffic jam and thought about the fossil fuel being wasted? Or the effect of all those idling engines on air quality? Or the greenhouse gases being created? If only we could get around as efficiently as ants seem to find our picnics…
Well, it just so happens that researchers studying ant behavior have found that ants use a form of “distributed intelligence” along with “ant optimization algorithms” to collectively establish efficient routes between the nest and the nearest food source.
Could it be that ants know something we don’t? Danielle Parsons explores exactly that in this installment of Friday Night at the Movies.
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