With this headline, I immediately thought of Zero's termite speech in Virtue's Last Reward (spoiler if you want to play this visual novel/game):<p>> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3PpRVshtY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3PpRVshtY</a><p>(EDIT: Video with better audio quality, but unluckily annoying comments:<p>> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0R_U3S1JUE&t=503" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0R_U3S1JUE&t=503</a>
>In the nineteen-nineties, computer scientists began programming virtual termites that built “walls” via the principles of stigmergy. These virtual termites could build two-dimensional shapes, but they could not produce anything like the complex three-dimensional architecture of real termites.<p>Someday soon, I hope we'll achieve termite AI.