Self-concern across scales
- Intelligence in current AI research is measured according to designer-assigned tasks that lack any relevance for an agent itself. As such, tasks and their evaluation reveal a lot more about our intelligence than the possible intelligence of agents that we design and evaluate. As a possible first step in remedying this, this article introduces the notion of "self-concern," a property of a complex system that describes its tendency to bring about states that are compatible with its continued self-maintenance. Self-concern, as argued, is the foundation of the kind of basic intelligence found across all biological systems, because it reflects any such system's existential task of continued viability. This article aims to cautiously progress a few steps closer to a better understanding of some necessary organisational conditions that are central to self-concern in biological systems. By emulating these conditions in embodied AI, perhaps something like genuine self-concern can be implemented in machines, bringing AI one step closer to its original goal of emulating human-like intelligence.
| Author: | Matthew SimsGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-92138 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2022.857614 |
| Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in neurorobotics |
| Subtitle (English): | a biologically inspired direction for embodied artificial intelligence |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Place of publication: | Lausanne |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/08/15 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/04/25 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | anticipatory control; artificial intelligence; artificial symbioses; basal cognition; common fate; embodied cognition; goal directed behaviour; homeostasis |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | Article 857614 |
| First Page: | 857614-1 |
| Last Page: | 857614-14 |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Institut für Philosophie II |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Philosophie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaft |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
