To study how virtual bodies affect the evolution of their intelligence, a computer-simulated playground was created for “unimals” are subject to mutations and natural selection.
Artificial intelligence is quite smart as well. But unlike animal smarts, AI is often disembodied. Natural language processing and other types of machine learning, for example, are typically done on silicon chips inside computers, with no physical manifestation in the world. And while computer vision requires cameras or sensors, it usually does so independently of any physical form.
A team of researchers at Stanford wondered: Does embodiment matter for the evolution of intelligence? And if so, how might computer scientists make use of embodiment to create smarter AIs?
Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/10/23/the-evolution-of-embodied-intelligence/
