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agency

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Is causality fundamental?

Untangling how the human perception of cause-and-effect might arise from quantum physics may help us understand the limits and potential of AI.
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Constructing a theory of life

An all-encompassing framework of physics could help to explain the evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and free will.
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Building agency in the biology lab

In pursuit of the mystery of life, physicists are combining cells to form compounds that can read signals and respond to them, just as living things do.
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The agent perspective

In these articles and podcast we explore how agency is what distinguishes us humans from intelligent machines, and how machines might be taught to behave more like we do.
Podcast

AI, babies, and agency

In this podcast we find out why true artificial intelligence will only become possible once machines have something that babies are born with: agency.
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The agent perspective

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.
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Building meaning: dog or ostrich

How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.