Dr. Matthias Heger: > Which animal has the smallest level of intelligence > which still would be sufficient for a robot to be an > AGI-robot? You ask for opinions, we got lots of those! I believe most people on this list would consider that humans are the only animals with significant-enough amounts of "general intelligence" to warrant the label. For example, using Goertzel's definition for intelligence: "complex goals in complex environments" -- the goals of non-human animals do not seem complex in the same way that "building an airplane" is complex... although it is interesting whether, say, "becoming the dominant member of my group" for other primates is really a "simple" goal. In any case, the generality of goals that can be undertaken by nonhuman animals seems very limited. Human cognition evolved from less capable forms. Do our higher cognitive functions depend on the lower neural machinery so much that it does not make sense to talk about abstract thought without the base functions shared by other animals? Figuring that out is a good reason to study animal-level cognition even though it is not the ultimate goal.
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