Harnessing Ecosystems for Powerful Computing

A study conducted at Kyoto University has demonstrated the computational power of ecosystems, providing a new direction for rapidly developing AI technologies. The researchers developed two types of ecological reservoir computing as a proof-of-concept that ecological networks have computational power. The study confirmed the possibility that the Tetrahymena population could make near-future predictions of ecological time series. The results suggest that there might be a link between high biodiversity and high computational power, shedding light on new values of previously unknown biodiversity.