Science Magazine Podcast — Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss

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Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss

Science Magazine Podcast

First up on the podcast, Staff Reporter Tom Howarth joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the language artificial intelligence agents evolve inside their swarms. Next on the show, producer Elah Feder talks with Revathe Thillaikumar, a behavioral ecologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Animal…

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