[supergarfield]

I'm always interested in understanding animal neurology, especially in the context of trying to reach more general levels of AI. I find it interesting that modern ANNs perform near human level at some difficult tasks, and yet it seems there are some tasks that insects perform that we'd have no idea how to implement. Animal nervous systems certainly have interesting things to teach us.

It also seems like understanding simpler brains will help in progressively understanding the human brain, even if these brains are very different. Developing a less human-focused toolkit might be what we need; sometimes studying a more general problem is what you need to get past blockers in a more concrete problem.

On that topic I really enjoyed _Other minds_ by Peter Godfrey-Smith, which talks about octopus behavior and some neurology, but I'm interested in recommendations for more technical readings in animal cognition / neurology.

[inter_netuser]

what are the tasks "tasks that insects perform that we'd have no idea how to implement" ?

[satori99]

Bees can land and launch from flowers and house flies can land upside down on a vertical surface.

Sure, tiny flying robots exist, but I don't know of anyone who can make them do either of those things using only onboard sensors and computing power.

[mdp2021]

> near human level

...of effectiveness ;)