{"id":174412,"date":"2023-10-19T23:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/where-ai-and-organisms-differ-and-what-it-means-for-agi"},"modified":"2023-10-19T23:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:48:35","slug":"where-ai-and-organisms-differ-and-what-it-means-for-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/where-ai-and-organisms-differ-and-what-it-means-for-agi","title":{"rendered":"Where AI and organisms differ and what it means for AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/where-ai-and-organisms-differ-and-what-it-means-for-agi2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>\u201cFor AI to be motivated towards a goal, it must know what it wants.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The possible board combinations in a game of Go are more than the number of atoms in the known universe, but it\u2019s 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?<\/p>\n<p>A recent research paper published in <em>Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution<\/em> explores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fevo.2021.806283\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obstacles toward AGI<\/a>. Biological systems with degrees of general intelligence \u2014 organisms ranging from the humble microbes to the humans reading this \u2014 are capable of improvising to meet their goals. What prevents AI from improvising?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor AI to be motivated towards a goal, it must know what it wants.\u201d The possible board combinations in a game of Go are more than the number of atoms in the known universe, but it\u2019s still a finite number. In the real world, there are infinite possibilities for what might happen next, and uncertainty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174412","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}