The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines
11 mins | May 28, 2017

As co-founder of Swiftkey, a predictive language software company that went on to be bought by Microsoft, Ben Medlock knows a thing or two about machine learning and artificial intelligence. But here, writing in Aeon magazine, he suggests that as it stands, algorithms are unlikely to reach human-level intelligence because they lack the lived-in bodies that contribute so much to our own understanding.

From Aeon