Natural Intelligence: What we and AI can learn from nature

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Artificial intelligence is powerful, but what about natural intelligence? This hour, TED speakers explore the intrinsic genius in animal language, insect behavior, plant anatomy and our immune system. Guests include neuroscientist Greg Gage, computational neuroscientist Frances Chance, social psychoneuroimmunologist Keely Muscatell and environmental researcher Karen Bakker.

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0:57.7	natural intelligence. We're going to kick things off by going back in time to the 1750s.
1:07.0	And a marshy, swampy, subtropical wetland in North Carolina, where a man named Arthur Dobbs lived.
1:18.0	Yeah, no, I like I like Arthur Dobbs. This is our tour guide, Greg Gage. He was the governor of North Carolina. This is back
1:26.1	in the 1750s, still under British rule. And Arthur, he says, was a curious man, a bit of a gentleman scientist.
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