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

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 Behavior. The two discuss the value of social learning as baby orangutans learn to find their own food over the longest dependency period of any animal, except humans.

Finally, from our series on scientific autobiographies, books host Angela Saini talks with astrophysicist Sara…

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