It may come as a surprise to many, but pigeons process problems in a way that is remarkably closer to Artificial Intelligence than almost any other animal.
While pigeons are rarely celebrated for high intelligence, their cognitive alignment with AI stems from a shared reliance on rapid pattern recognition and associative learning.
We routinely employ logic, rule-based reasoning, and abstract deduction—cognitive tools that are functionally absent in both pigeons and current AI systems.
Much like AI, pigeons rely almost exclusively on trial and error.
Because of this advanced internal psychology, rats operate far closer to human cognition than either pigeons or artificial intelligence ever will.