About whether embodiment is necessary for AGI, or whether interacting with people is enough.
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About whether embodiment is necessary for AGI, or whether interacting with people is enough.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Maybe the embodiment criteria is required, but personally I don’t think so.
re: “Visual language AI that is completely digital is not AGI”:
I think what is required is interaction with people. I think that interaction can be online conversations with millions of people, each with a separate human-specific context in addition to global knowledge. This is really just the Turing Test but so-called up to millions of people with conversations that might span several years, changing world conditions, etc.
A cost function could be continued engagement with people. AGIs that are not interesting are not AGIs and fail.