octopi

This means, for octopuses (octopi as a plural is incorrect; its Greek not Latin) its probably ok.

Problem for octopi are that they are not social animals, so their intelligence consists mostly from problem solving.

Well, first of all octopi are invertebrates, so their nervous systems are quite dramatically different from ours.

We should give octopi the gift of technology and let them overtake the underwater world.

We are simply seeing the first generation of a new trait amongst some octopi.

The first thing that came to mind were those robotic octopi from The Matrix.

This makes determining the intelligence potential of a species very difficult: what is the optimal environment for baby octopi to learn to communicate?

How much smarter could octopi be if they didn't die when they mated?

As is octopodes, but octopi is a freak Greek-Latin hybrid by people trying to convince the world that they aren't idiots but is now also valid.

There's also soem great videos of Octopi solving mazes.

Similar to how thousands of years of hunting with wolves has produced the dog, could we breed octopi that help human marine hunters?

Where I'm from (Spain), octopi are routinely eaten and are considered delicious.

Octopi have more "hands" to control and they're lighter so they can accomplish less.

I wonder if "civilized" octopi would concentrate their war-making on us, or perhaps on each other?

In the great 1957 scifi novel "Niourk" [1], men have (mostly) abandoned Earth, the oceans dried away and octopi became larger, cleverer and are becoming the dominant species.

On the other hand, you could say that not accepting "octopi" as a plural of "octopus" shows 'ignorance' of languages in general.

Octopi is colloquially correct, but it is then acceptable to deliver a short lecture on Latinized Greek words.

Octopi would need food to live and that food is a huge cost in resources.

Octopi consume a feed that could have been human to begin with.