[gooseus]

Does anyone know if there has ever been experimentation with training octopuses to use some kind of user interface (buttons, dials, sliders, joysticks) with a grayscale screen or some other kind of modulated output to solve problems for rewards?

Could an octopus learn to play Super Mario Bros or Pac-Man to beat levels for crab?

If we could find a reliable way to teach an input language to an octopus we could start probing what classes of problems are easier or harder for them solve. We could develop octopus input devices that maximize the size of the 'octo-bus', and find ways to give them an "immersive experience" by modulating their environment (temp, salinity, pH, etc) as feedback.

Anyone with me on this? I haven't found anything, but I don't know if my "dorking" is up to par.

[shostack]

The second book in the Children of Time series touches on this in the path of how octopodes get hyper evolved.