Principle behind Google's April Fools' pigeon prank proves more than a joke
- Written by Edward Wasserman, Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Iowa
Consider the wisdom of the flock.Zac Ong/Unsplash, CC BYGoogle’s 2002 April Fools’ Day joke purportedly disclosed that its popular search engine was not actually powered by artificial intelligence, but instead by biological intelligence. Google had deployed bunches of birds, dubbed pigeon clusters, to calculate the relative value of...
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