DARPA Wants to Turn Insect Brains Into Robot Brains

The military wants artificial intelligence, but it's not intending to cook it up from scratch. Instead, in a recent solicitation, DARPA asked for proposals to build AI based on insect brains. The program seeks to build AI that is smaller and more efficient than normal software.
Unlike us, insects operate almost entirely based on simple stimuli. Moths, for instance, are so programmed to navigate based on the direction of light that they occasionally navigate directly into light bulbs. While these sorts of basic rules can sometimes backfire, they’re also incredibly simple and easy to implement, which is what makes them useful to the military.