Ispectrum Magazine Ispectrum Magazine #15 | Page 13

“The Body Cannot Live Without the Mind” - Morpheus. From “The Matrix”, by the Wachowski Brothers. could a machine see, move, and use its surrounding environment as a yardstick to apply its stored data to - thus ‘understanding’ why it thinks like it does, rather than just referring to stored data that ultimately it doesn’t understand the mean-ing for.9 For the first time, both robots and Artificial Intelligence needed the same thing: vision. The eyes are the window to the soul indeed. If a robot needed to be intelligent to serve its purpose, and an AI needed a body in order to learn, had robots and AI - for the first time in history - become one and the same? “The Body Cannot Live Without the Mind” - Morpheus. From “The Matrix”, by the Wachowski Brothers. 12