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Plant-Inspired AI: Plants as Inspiration for Novel Problem Formulations, and Two Case Studies

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 29, 2026 · UTC

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been inspired by studies of biological intelligence. Reinforcement learning, for instance, drew inspiration from studies involving animal learning and is now a powerful paradigm for solving many real-world problems. Recently, plant biologists have uncovered a wide range of complex behaviors in plants that enable them to flexibly adapt to variable environments. Here, we argue that such behavior can motivate new AI frameworks encompassing a range of problems overlooked by existing problem-solving frameworks such as supervised learning, tree search, and const

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