# Ant Encounters

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Podcast: [Data Skeptic](https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-skeptic)
Published: 2024-08-26T14:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2024/ant-encounters
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Duration seconds: 1886

## Resource

In this interview with author Deborah Gordon, Kyle asks questions about the mechanisms at work in an ant colony and what ants might teach us about how to build artificial intelligence. Ants are surprisingly adaptive creatures whose behavior emerges from their complex interactions. Aspects of network theory and the statistical nature of ant behavior are just some of the interesting details you'll get in this episode.

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