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Correct. Without real stakes, no real intelligence. Now why on Earth would anyone want to build an embodied AGI, beats me. Actually, it doesn't beat me, it's the age old foolish pride that we'll be able to control our creation. We are not Gods, we won't. There should be international treaties with teeth to ban A(G)I research, like we do for uranium enrichment or (to a lesser extent) for gain of function research. Wha…
Or maybe they can brute-force intelligence from a computer, I don't know.
This is kind of a weird discussion. "Embodiment" here seems to mean "having a body," i.e. being able to perform motor tasks in the external world (as opposed to the way it's used in "Embodiment and the Inner Life" [1]). In that case, I don't think embodiment could ever be considered a necessary condition for AGI. But AGI would need to be able to learn motor tasks if given a body (in order to be called "general"). A d…
Why would moving physical objects like electrons by micro meters not be good enough, but by meters it would?
AGI is a feeling alright. You can even call it love in front of the kids.
I do not understand why we would want AGI though. Seems like we already have humans for that.
This is kind of a weird discussion. "Embodiment" here seems to mean "having a body," i.e. being able to perform motor tasks in the external world (as opposed to the way it's used in "Embodiment and the Inner Life" [1]). In that case, I don't think embodiment could ever be considered a necessary condition for AGI. But AGI would need to be able to learn motor tasks if given a body (in order to be called "general"). A d…
The mind has a physical structure that supports it. We are still unable to understand a meaningful portion of that structure or replicate it.
Creating a concept to speculate about a system that we have no objective knowledge, based on subjective experience is useless. The name is catchy for a song though.
To fully experience a human-centric world an agent will need a body not too different from humans, and will have all kinds of interesting power and weight constraints, and only be able to handle a certain volume of processing hardware. Thus they might not be as uncontrollably god-like as skynet.
So the key question seems to be whether they are individual agents or networked.
This is kind of a weird discussion. "Embodiment" here seems to mean "having a body," i.e. being able to perform motor tasks in the external world (as opposed to the way it's used in "Embodiment and the Inner Life" [1]). In that case, I don't think embodiment could ever be considered a necessary condition for AGI. But AGI would need to be able to learn motor tasks if given a body (in order to be called "general"). A d…
Do you think we're metaphysical beings, or that physics are beyond the capacity of a CPU to simulate?
Tesla FSD Beta has a body with sensors (cameras) and actuators (engine/wheels/steering). Does that count as embodiment?
[1] well, the title, in the grand HN tradition I haven't of course actually read the article.