{"id":128635,"date":"2021-10-06T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/simulated-ai-creatures-demonstrate-how-mind-and-body-evolve-and-succeed-together"},"modified":"2021-10-06T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T02:22:38","slug":"simulated-ai-creatures-demonstrate-how-mind-and-body-evolve-and-succeed-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/simulated-ai-creatures-demonstrate-how-mind-and-body-evolve-and-succeed-together","title":{"rendered":"Simulated AI creatures demonstrate how mind and body evolve and succeed together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zltE0wR2Y5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is often thought of as disembodied: a mind like a program, floating in a digital void. But human minds are deeply intertwined with our bodies \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/news\/how-bodies-get-smarts-simulating-evolution-embodied-intelligence\">an experiment with virtual creatures<\/a> performing tasks in simulated environments suggests that AI may benefit from having a mind-body setup.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford scientists were curious about the physical-mental interplay in our own evolution from blobs to tool-using apes. Could it be that the brain is influenced by the capabilities of the body and vice versa? It has been suggested before \u2014 over a century ago, in fact \u2014 and certainly it\u2019s obvious that with a grasping hand one learns more quickly to manipulate objects than with a less differentiated appendage.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to know whether the same could be said for an AI, since their development is more structured. Yet the questions such a concept brings up are compelling: Could an AI better learn and adapt to the world if it has evolved to do so from the start?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is often thought of as disembodied: a mind like a program, floating in a digital void. But human minds are deeply intertwined with our bodies \u2014 and an experiment with virtual creatures performing tasks in simulated environments suggests that AI may benefit from having a mind-body setup. Stanford scientists were curious about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}