What is intelligence?
Can it be reproduced – in what is called artificial intelligence (AI)? AI as we know it now – for example through a software able to defeat the best GO-game champion – remains most of the time limited to the field of actions it was designed for. And creating an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), capable amongst others of abstraction, common sense or rapid generalisation of concepts, still needs some way to go.
But what if the “body information”, the physical interactions an organism has with its environment, might help in inspiring better AIs? That is what a group of scientists with swiss participants from EMPA proposes, through a new concept called Physical Artificial Intelligence, which might redefine the field of robotics and the relationship between man and machine.
--Olivier Dessibourg
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