Blob Oracle: Slime Mold LLM

Explore combining a brainless slime mold, *Physarum polycephalum*, with a Large Language Model to question the nature of intelligence beyond language.

Overview

I’m really not convinced that language is synonymous with intelligence, so, instead of asking ChatGPT for life advice, I decided to ask…. A slime mold. Physarum polycephalum (The Blob) is a unicellular organism that is weirdly intelligent, considering that it doesn’t have a brain or nervous system. Soooo what if we combined it with an LLM? 👀

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