Natural-Intelligence

Honeybee groups carry distinct chemical signatures used to distinguish nestmates from outsiders, but those signatures change when groups are brought together.

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years design an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

Researchers analysing 1,245 natural vocal interactions found that wild common marmosets use flexible turn-taking, matched call-response sequences, brief pauses, and very little overlap across both within-group and intergroup exchanges.

Researchers combined more than 16,000 soil samples with predictive models to map the global density of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks.

Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, a study published in Nature uncovers one of the elegant ways that evolution transformed neglect into nurture.

AgentSociety proposes a framework where autonomous agents cooperate through mechanisms borrowed from social choice theory and liquid democracy. Agents delegate authority, route information, and form consensus-based decision paths using only local knowledge and incentive-compatible behaviour.

29-Nov-2026 Hong Kong - DAI 2026 places coordination, markets, agent infrastructure, and societies of autonomous agents at the center of distributed AI research.

“Agentic AIs are a feral technology… they are projected to become a wild, self-sustaining, population.” Co-organised with Morgan Stanley, this upcoming Santa Fe Institute gathering takes place 15-Sept-2026 in NYC.

If there is a single institution that has consistently explored how intelligence emerges from interactions rather than instruction, it is the Santa Fe Institute.

A June workshop dedicated specifically to distributed collective intelligence, including bio-inspired approaches, decentralized trust systems, artificial life concepts, and collective behavior in smart systems.