<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;font-family:Graphik,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,86,102)">“A human AGI without a body is bound to be, for all practical purposes, a disembodied ‘zombie’ of sorts, lacking genuine understanding of the world (with its myriad forms, natural phenomena, beauty, etc.) including its human inhabitants, their motivations, habits, customs, behavior, etc. the agent would need to fake all these,” Raghavachary writes."Accordingly, an embodied AGI system would need a body that matches its brain, and both need to be designed for the specific kind of environment it will be working in.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;font-family:Graphik,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,86,102)">“We, made of matter and structures, directly interact with structures, whose phenomena we ‘experience’. Experience cannot be digitally computed—it needs to be actively acquired via a body,” Raghavachary said. “To me, there is simply no substitute for direct experience.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;font-family:Graphik,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,86,102)">In a nutshell, the considered response theory suggests that suitable pairings of synthetic brains and bodies that directly engage with the world should be considered life-like, and appropriately intelligent, and—depending on the functions enabled in the hardware—possibly conscious.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;font-family:Graphik,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,86,102)">This means that you can create any kind of robot and make it intelligent by equipping it with a brain that matches its body and sensory experience.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;font-family:Graphik,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,86,102)">“Such agents do not need to be anthropomorphic—they could have unusual designs, structures and functions that would produce intelligent behavior alien to our own (e.g., an octopus-like design, with brain functions distributed throughout the body),” Raghavachary said. “That said, the most relatable human-level AI would likely be best housed in a human-like agent.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;font-family:Graphik,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,86,102)"><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/create-artificial-general-intelligence-we-need-reevaluate-intelligence-syndication">https://thenextweb.com/news/create-artificial-general-intelligence-we-need-reevaluate-intelligence-syndication</a>  <br></p></div>