“Animal Intelligence”

Global Animal Disease Intelligence Report

Animal Intelligence as Encephalization [and Discussion]

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Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities?

The recent success of neural networks in applications such as speech recognition, vision and autonomous navigation has led to great excitement by members of the artificial intelligence (AI) community and the general public at large. Over a relatively short period, by the science clock, we managed to automate some tasks that have defied us for decades and using one of the more classical techniqu...

A theory of intelligence: networked problem solving in animal societies

A society’s single emergent, increasing intelligence arises partly from the thermodynamic advantages of networking the innate intelligence of different individuals, and partly from the accumulation of solved problems. Economic growth is proportional to the square of the network entropy of a society’s population times the network entropy of the number of the society’s solved problems.

Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind

Of course, intelligence must emerge from the workings of the three-pound mass of wetware packed inside our skulls. Thus, researchers have tried to identify unique features of the human brain that could account for our superior intellectual abilities. But, anatomically, the human brain is very similar to that of other primates because humans and chimpanzees share an ancestor that walked the eart...