Date: 8/02/2019 17:08:32
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1343346
Subject: Bees join list of animals with ability to perform basic arithmetic

Animals are smarter than you think.

>>In a discovery that could have implications for the development of artificial intelligence, researchers at RMIT in Australia and the University of Toulouse in France have found that bees can do basic arithmetic. The discovery that bees have the ability to add and subtract shows that the busy little insects are capable of a sophisticated level of cognition and proves once again that brain power isn’t necessarily dependent on brain size.<<

https://newatlas.com/bees-arithmetic-ability-add-subtract/58376/

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Date: 8/02/2019 17:09:55
From: Cymek
ID: 1343349
Subject: re: Bees join list of animals with ability to perform basic arithmetic

PermeateFree said:


Animals are smarter than you think.

>>In a discovery that could have implications for the development of artificial intelligence, researchers at RMIT in Australia and the University of Toulouse in France have found that bees can do basic arithmetic. The discovery that bees have the ability to add and subtract shows that the busy little insects are capable of a sophisticated level of cognition and proves once again that brain power isn’t necessarily dependent on brain size.<<

https://newatlas.com/bees-arithmetic-ability-add-subtract/58376/

I read that, interesting, I imagine it would probably apply to other hive structured insects

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Date: 9/02/2019 00:03:56
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1343595
Subject: re: Bees join list of animals with ability to perform basic arithmetic

PermeateFree said:


Animals are smarter than you think.

>>In a discovery that could have implications for the development of artificial intelligence, researchers at RMIT in Australia and the University of Toulouse in France have found that bees can do basic arithmetic. The discovery that bees have the ability to add and subtract shows that the busy little insects are capable of a sophisticated level of cognition and proves once again that brain power isn’t necessarily dependent on brain size.<<

https://newatlas.com/bees-arithmetic-ability-add-subtract/58376/

> brain power isn’t necessarily dependent on brain size.

As Lisa Simpson showed.

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