You see, those probes deal with harsh environments, yes. But they don't have to deal with antagonists. No one is out to eat or infect them. Mars won't adapt its storms, Venus won't adapts its chemistry. They obstacles that don't care about our probes, those obstacles don't adapt against the probes.
Those radically different kinds of environments give you radically different designs of probes vs rodents. So I don't think we can easily compare the intelligence of probes vs rodents.
Sure, but they have extremely limited autonomy. The vast majority of their behaviours are directly controlled, or custom programmed by us for the specific situation.
eru|3 years ago
You see, those probes deal with harsh environments, yes. But they don't have to deal with antagonists. No one is out to eat or infect them. Mars won't adapt its storms, Venus won't adapts its chemistry. They obstacles that don't care about our probes, those obstacles don't adapt against the probes.
Those radically different kinds of environments give you radically different designs of probes vs rodents. So I don't think we can easily compare the intelligence of probes vs rodents.
simonh|3 years ago