Ispectrum Magazine Ispectrum Magazine #15 | Page 12

i Don’t Work for No Body In 1980, several researchers suggested that the best way for an AI to be able to learn would be through the use of a physical body, rather than through pre-programmed instruction bases. In other words, it would only be through robotics that AI could truly flourish. This new theory was rooted in The Embod ied Cognitive Approach, and argues that no amount of intelligence could react in the same way a human does without the stimulus of an external environment. For example, only through a body 11