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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by singularity2001 on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:54AM (#12529908)
>> Spiders, as all insects, don't learn.

That is blatantly false. A recent paper has shown that bees can even be trained to distinguishing a handful of human faces( a task which they are of course not optimized for).

for starters: http://insects.about.com/od/behaviorcommunication/f/caninsec...

Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by whamlastxmas on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:13PM (#12532965)
It might be more accurate to say that bees have the innate ability to distinguish and remember faces. An insect cannot learn a novel concept they are not able to do innately.