Don't diss the pigeons: How nature's algorithm rivals AI

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There is a scene in the Michael Winterbottom-directed film '24 Hour Party People' that charts the emergence of British New Wave music and also exemplifies our attitude toward pigeons.

Two young men head to the rooftop of a building, where hundreds of pigeons come to roost, and they proceed to shower the place with breadcrumbs. As the pigeons consume them and take flight, they suddenly start plummeting towards earth and dying.

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