📮 Maildrop 18.06.24: The embodiment enigma
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Can AI ever be as smart as us without a physical body?
The embodiment enigma is a brain teaser in AI. It asks if true intelligence requires a physical body.
Humans learn by touching, tasting, and seeing the world.
Imagine catching a ball – you use your body to judge distance and adjust your hand. AI models, stuck in the digital world, miss out on these experiences.
This might limit their ability to truly understand and interact with the world as we do.
In continuation of the previous maildrops, “LLMs lack human intelligence, and won't match anytime soon,” this time, I try to explore how it challenges the path to true human-level intelligence for LLMs.
What’s important to know? It's a debate – can AI ever be as smart as us without a physical body?
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