Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 47 of 68

Mechanical creatures before mechanical humans

Can our knowledge of evolution inform AI? Brooks believes that it can, and argues that we should first aim to build basic mechanical creatures before we try to build mechanical humans.

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