Anthropic's IPO is also a landmark event for ants

Source: Business Insider

Chance Yeh/Getty; iStock; Tyler Le/BIIn "MALE ANT PULLS OFF OWN WING TO MATE WITH QUEEN," three minutes of raw carnality from the BBC Earth's YouTube channel, a fat, ponderous male driver ant unsheathes spikes in his abdomen to lop off his right wing, and then lets dozens of much smaller female ants squeeze him into the queen's muddy bedchamber. It's possible that some of San Francisco's famously overworked and undersexed AI researchers have studied this footage for tutelage. That is where comparisons between ants and artificial intelligence would seem to begin and end.