{"id":51011,"date":"2025-07-31T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51011\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:00:21","slug":"what-ai-can-teach-us-about-evolution-computing-and-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51011\/","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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753999221_165_\"\/><\/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":51012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-51011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}