With this headline, I immediately thought of Zero's termite speech in Virtue's Last Reward (spoiler if you want to play this visual novel/game):

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3PpRVshtY

(EDIT: Video with better audio quality, but unluckily annoying comments:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0R_U3S1JUE&t=503

>In the nineteen-nineties, computer scientists began programming virtual termites that built “walls” via the principles of stigmergy. These virtual termites could build two-dimensional shapes, but they could not produce anything like the complex three-dimensional architecture of real termites.

Someday soon, I hope we'll achieve termite AI.

Not sure it's possible. The more accurate the models get, the buggier they are.

What termites have taught me is to not keep firewood stacked right next to my house.