collective intelligence
2 published articles
Robotics & DronesFeatured3 min read
Sakana AI's collective intelligence finally goes physical
These identical bricks taught themselves to recognize their own shape. No central brain needed.
A stack of identical cubes, each running the same tiny neural network and talking only to its immediate neighbors, can figure out their global shape, detect damage, and guide regrowth. No single brick knows where it is. The system hit 100 percent accuracy in hardware, published in Nature Communications.
2026-07-21
LLMs & ModelsFeatured4 min read
Picbreeder revived with VLM agents
When AI agents rebuilt the internet's most creative experiment, they hit a wall humans never see
Sakana AI, MIT and NYU recreated Picbreeder with VLM agents to study open-ended creativity. The agents became trapped in repeating motifs, unable to make the conceptual leaps humans manage. Diverse personalities helped, but the gap between artificial and human creativity remains unexplained.
2026-07-19