AI and its robotic body
Current brilliant human minds have developed many robots, and we have all seen their various shapes mimicking the lifeforms found in nature.
I am fascinated by the robotic designs based on quadruped animals. But we all have also seen the human designs into machines. Some of us like to mould things in our image. We even did it with God across many cultures.
But I like to imagine one scenario. What would result if an AI were to become “alive” and wants a robotic body for locomotion? I know it can do that via the internet in a nanosecond. But let’s presume that it wants to control a body to locomote it. It is similar to how we like to play with a remote-controlled toy. I wonder what design the AI would come up with as the best. Would it be a human figure or some animal figure? Or something else?
But I guess that it will be based off or similar to some animal form because nature has already spent billions of years going through all the best permutations and combinations. It discarded those that did not work and chose ones that did. That is why we have the phenomenon of convergent evolution.
I have read that the human body has many design flaws. But it gets its job done. After all, we survived for hundreds of thousands of years. But we might be a local maxima in terms of design efficiency and performance that the evolution reached. There might be a better design out there for a body that the AI may figure out.
It’s an exciting thought.
