{"id":37291,"date":"2025-08-01T03:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37291\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T03:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:56:11","slug":"what-ai-can-teach-us-about-evolution-computing-and-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37291\/","title":{"rendered":"What AI can teach us about evolution, computing and the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas, VP and Fellow at Google and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, explores the computational nature of life, the origins of intelligence, consciousness, free will and the ethics of AI. <\/p>\n<p>His book, \u201cWhat Is Intelligence? Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds,\u201d weaves insights from computer science, biology, physics and neuroscience to present a unified theory of intelligence \u2014 and argues, controversially, that some modern AI systems may possess consciousness and free will.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Book cover for &quot;What Is Intelligence?&quot; by Blaise Agu\u0308era y Arcas\"  width=\"880\" height=\"1305\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754020571_660_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas, VP and Fellow at Google and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, explores the computational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4323,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-computing","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}