Scientists built an artificially
intelligent ocean predator that behaves a lot like the original flesh-and-blood
organism on which it was modeled. The virtual creature, Cyberslug, reacts to
food and responds to members of its own kind much like the actual animal, the
sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica, does.
Unlike most other AI entities,
Cyberslug has a simple self-awareness. It relates its motivation and memories
to its perception of the external world, and it reacts to information on the
basis of how that information makes it feel. The model uses sophisticated
algorithms to simulate Cyberslug's competing goals and decision-making.
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