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Oct 19, 2023

Where AI and organisms differ and what it means for AGI

Posted by in categories: biological, particle physics, robotics/AI

“For AI to be motivated towards a goal, it must know what it wants.”

The possible board combinations in a game of Go are more than the number of atoms in the known universe, but it’s still a finite number. In the real world, there are infinite possibilities for what might happen next, and uncertainty is rampant. How realistic, then, is AGI?

A recent research paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution explores obstacles toward AGI. Biological systems with degrees of general intelligence — organisms ranging from the humble microbes to the humans reading this — are capable of improvising to meet their goals. What prevents AI from improvising?

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