This is the kind of idea that will lead to revolutionary thinking across multiple domains at some point. People in all sorts of fields should follow this kind

This is the kind of idea that will lead to revolutionary thinking across multiple domains at some point. People in all sorts of fields should follow this kind of work very closely. Excellent, exciting stuff. This also offers a very fertile, multidisciplinary endeavor for developers, designers, and science folks. A good designer should build an ant environment such that the environment is strictly controlled, and precise alterations to the environment can be made, and either video + software or tagging to track the ants movements, environment, and functionality. A good computer scientist, with a physics, mathematical, or cryptographic bent, could work with this designer and ant researcher to use the ant environment video to generate algorithms to model and predict ant behavior, which could be evolved as the system generates more information about the ants. They could create several of these identical boxes to run at once. Eventually, the system will be quite good at predicting the behavior of ants. At this point, they could bring aboard a person with an interest in ant brains, to link the models evolved from the boxes with ant neurology. Then, they will have an answer to how intelligent behavior can arise from stupid ants, which will offer revolutionary insight into fields from AI to economics to psychology to neurology to education.