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Lo que pueden aprender las máquinas inteligentes de un banco de peces

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Radhika Nagpal |

TED2017

• April 2017

Las visiones de ciencia ficción del futuro nos muestran que la inteligencia artificial se construye para replicar nuestra forma de pensar, pero ¿qué pasaría si. en vez de eso, la modeláramos sobre los otros tipos de inteligencia que se encuentran en la naturaleza? La ingeniera robótica Radhika Nagpal estudia la inteligencia colectiva mostrada por los insectos y los bancos de peces, buscando entender sus reglas de juego. En una charla visionaria, presenta su trabajo donde crea poder colectivo artificial y anticipa un futuro donde enjambres de robots trabajan juntos para construir barreras contra inundaciones, polinizar cultivos, monitorizar arrecifes de coral y formar constelaciones de satélites.

Las visiones de ciencia ficción del futuro nos muestran que la inteligencia artificial se construye para replicar nuestra forma de pensar, pero ¿qué pasaría si. en vez de eso, la modeláramos sobre los otros tipos de inteligencia que se encuentran en la naturaleza? La ingeniera robótica Radhika Nagpal estudia la inteligencia colectiva mostrada por los insectos y los bancos de peces, buscando entender sus reglas de juego. En una charla visionaria, presenta su trabajo donde crea poder colectivo artificial y anticipa un futuro donde enjambres de robots trabajan juntos para construir barreras contra inundaciones, polinizar cultivos, monitorizar arrecifes de coral y formar constelaciones de satélites.

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Radhika Nagpal

Robotics engineer

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Taking cues from bottom-up biological networks like those of social insects, Radhika Nagpal helped design an unprecedented “swarm” of ant-like robots.

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Root Robotics is our new company that hopes to make the fun and beauty of programming accessible and affordable to everyone, and help enable true diversity in our technological future. Every kid should learn to
code in a fun way, that enhances their personal interests, and that inspires them to become creative technologies themselves. We aim to be part of that revolution.

Mark Moffett | University of California Press, 2011 | Book

Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions

It's hard not to be inspired when you read about the amazing exploits and societies of ants. Ants have all the characteristics we might think of as human, from agriculture to building underground city-like networks to defense and deceit, but without leaders. Learning about ants taught me to think differently about both robots and people.

Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theralauz and Marco Dorigo | Book

Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems

This book describes some of the beginning of my field of research and how interdisciplinary groups of biologists, physicists and computer scientists uncovered natural rules and designed artificial systems. It's surprising how deceivingly simple rules can lead to group intelligence.

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Visit Radhika Nagpal's homepage.

Learn more about Self-Organizing Systems Research at Harvard.