Tetrahymena thermophila Masayuki Ushio and others./Kyoto University
A colony made up of single-celled organisms could be used as a biological computer that can crunch historical data points to predict the future. A study that substituted each node of a neural network with an organism tiny showed that the changing size of the colony could accurately predict the next step in time series data. This was evident in the example of daily fishing catch of some species in Japanese waters.
Neural networks, a popular form of artificial Intelligence that relies on clusters of mathematically connected nodes, are very popular.
