Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

Re:Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains by wydfre on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:15PM (#28055432)

What about Portia[0]? I have often read about the intelligence and eyesight that jumping spiders have.

My pet theory is that invertebrate intelligence is more popular in the universe and among galactic federations or what have you.

[0]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.5680...

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Re:Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains by plutonorm on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:44AM (#28057610)

Why would aliens follow standard invertebrate non invertebrate evolutionary lines? I can imagine a world where vertebrates are generally smaller and simpler creatures. What if insects had evolved efficient lungs and vertebrates had not?

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Re:Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains by porkbrain on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:40PM (#28055616)

Blindsight by Peter Watts is a great sci-fi novel in which the author explores an idea somewhat similar your pet theory.

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Re:Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains by ravi-delia on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:54PM (#28055707)

The sequel actually goes there by name

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Re:Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains by gpderetta on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:23AM (#28058241)

I did not enjoy exchopraxia as much as blindsight, but loved the treatise on the portia spiders.

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