Margaret Boden made these points previously. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/276 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/276 A fun alternative strand in AI research

Margaret Boden made these points previously. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/276 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/276 A fun alternative strand in AI research driven by these thoughts (I think) is typified by Rosie. Rosie is the proper job. http://soar.eecs.umich.edu/articles/articles/videos-rosie http://soar.eecs.umich.edu/articles/articles/videos-rosie There is an unseemly comment in this thread that alludes to a genuine issue with the embodied AI arguement. People with other bodies are not lesser intelligences than those who have a socially cast "typical" body or sensors. And given that one has to question this line of reasoning. The answer is that intelligence is embodied outside and beyond your physical being - it's your body, your family, your tribe and so on. I find the philosophy difficult, but to prove that there is something in this view you need to hike out to a wood somewhere and spend a couple of weeks by yourself. Things happen and who you are changes (did for me) cut yourself off or be cut off and you are as less human (autonomous cognitive agent) as one can become.