Statistical approaches to Artificial Intelligence are behind most success stories of the field in the past decade. The idea of generating non-trivial behaviour by analysing vast amounts of data has enabled recommendation systems, search engines, spam filters, optical character recognition, machine translation and speech recognition, among other things. As we celebrate the spectacular achievemen...

The machine control problem is normally approached from the perspective of having a central body of intelligence (and control) in the machine [Albus, 1991]. However, we present a conceptual design of a machine using distributed learning and intelligence. This new design is loosely based on biological models of social insects. For example, in an ant colony each ant functions according to local r...