> The big question is "How much of a body does the AI need?" Our bodies give an upper bound of five sensory inputs. With a little scrutiny we can reduce that e

> The big question is "How much of a body does the AI need?" Our bodies give an upper bound of five sensory inputs. With a little scrutiny we can reduce that even further, since we know that a portion of our population are born with less than five senses and exhibit comparable intelligence. Some people are borne blind, deaf, mute, anosmic, or with ageusia. Others are even born with rare sensory deficits such as the inability to feel pain. Although I have not read any studies on the subject, I suspect that being borne with none of the five core sense would have a serious negative impact human intelligence. There is more to the problem though then just the ability to sense our environment. I believe that for an agent to acquire human level intelligence, it is also necessary to have the ability to explore and manipulate the environment in complex ways. It must be able to experiment by making observations, evaluating the outcome and thereby advance its knowledge. Knowledge of course must be retained to be of any use, so it must have memory efficient enough to be practicable. In order for the experimentation to lead to higher levels of enlightenment an intelligent agent must be able to take past knowledge and hypothesis yet unobserved outcomes. This should serve as motivation for further experimentation. Human's have this notion that a per-requisite to real intelligence is to be able to express ones self with a language and thereby share your ideas with others. Communication with language seems to result in social beings, and it is widely believed that social beings do best if they have emotional intelligence, otherwise they will likely be outcast from society. so, I think AI needs a body that at least allows it the following: - Ability to move - Ability to move objects with enough accuracy to assemble or disassemble complex structures - The ability to know the physical properties of objects (maybe through one or more of our five senses, but not necessarily) - Ability to retain knowledge - Ability to hypothesise - The ability to communicate with another agent to share information (helpful, but maybe not necessary) I am not as convinced that emotional intelligence is required, so I left that out of my list. For example, consider that highly intelligent beings could be of a different nature than humans and form societies without emotions or politics. An excellent example are the Primes from Pehter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star where (motiles) are controlled by the commanding caste (immotiles) [1] Of course I am bias since I am human, so I am looking at what is required to achieve intelligence as I know and understand it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga#Pandora's_Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga#Pandora's_St...