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A more than daring proposal, which comes straight from the researchers at Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab, based in Paris. In a preliminary report, the latter introduced the concept of embodied artificial intelligence (E-AI), which could be translated as embodied artificial intelligence. From their perspective, this is the next step for artificial general intelligence (AGI) to one day think and act like a human being.
Towards truly interactive intelligence
Today, AGI is the vision ultimate AI research. In other words, it is an artificial intelligence capable of performing any task requiring cognitive functions specific to humans or animals.
For Huawei researchers, simply increasing the computing power and the volume of data processed by these algorithms is not the right path to take to one day reach IAG.
They explain: “ We argue that true understanding goes beyond simple factual truth, but also encompasses the value of propositions that guide our actions. It can only be fully achieved through emotionally intelligent AI agents, living in the real world and learning through their interaction with it “.
In other words, to understand their surrounding world, the AI will necessarily have to interact with it, that is to say in a physical form, a body in due form.
Technological challenges and futuristic projects
The concept is, for the moment, very ambitious, and succeeding in integrating an AI into a physical body is a project which still comes up against many obstacles. The large-scale language models (LLMs) powering today's chatbots are very large and managed entirely remotely. Implementing them in an object of a normal size seems today to be a difficult task.
Huawei researchers are not the only onesto have embarked on this path. Boston Dynamics (the company behind Atlas, the acrobat robot), Tesla, or Figure and its humanoid robot have already integrated AI into their development projects. robotics.
It is undeniable that the approach put forward by Huawei contains an element of truth. In the development of robotics, the distinction between robots developed to perform specific physical tasks and robots designed for cognitive tasks was previously clearer. Today, this distinction tends to blur as technical barriers fall. If AGI implemented in a fully functional body is not yet current, it could arrive faster than we think.
- A team of Huawei researchers suggests the next step for AI to evolve and incarnate into a physical body.
- An approach that would allow artificial intelligence systems to interact with their environment to understand it better.
- For the moment, this ambitious approach remains still hampered by technical obstacles, although some projects are already very advanced, such as the robots of Tesla, Boston Dynamics or Figure.
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