Editing Artificial general intelligence (section)

=== Physical traits ===
Other capabilities are considered desirable in intelligent systems, as they may affect intelligence or aid in its expression. These include:<ref name=":13">Pfeifer, R. and Bongard J. C., How the body shapes the way we think: a new view of intelligence (The MIT Press, 2007). {{ISBN|0-2621-6239-3}}</ref>
* the ability to [[machine perception|sense]] (e.g. [[computer vision|see]], hear, etc.), and
* the ability to act (e.g. [[robotics|move and manipulate objects]], change location to explore, etc.)
This includes the ability to detect and respond to [[hazard]].<ref name="White 1959 297–333">{{Cite journal |last=White |first=R. W. |date=1959 |title=Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence |journal=Psychological Review |volume=66 |issue=5 |pages=297–333 |doi=10.1037/h0040934 |pmid=13844397 |s2cid=37385966}}</ref>

Although the ability to sense (e.g. [[computer vision|see]], hear, etc.) and the ability to act (e.g. [[robotics|move and manipulate objects]], change location to explore, etc.) can be desirable for some intelligent systems,<ref name=":13"/> these physical capabilities are not strictly required for an entity to qualify as AGI—particularly under the thesis that large language models (LLMs) may already be or become AGI. Even from a less optimistic perspective on LLMs, there is no firm requirement for an AGI to have a human-like form; being a silicon-based computational system is sufficient, provided it can process input (language) from the external world in place of human senses. This interpretation aligns with the understanding that AGI has never been proscribed a particular physical embodiment and thus does not demand a capacity for locomotion or traditional "eyes and ears".<ref name="White 1959 297–333"/>  It can be regarded as sufficient for an intelligent computer to ''interact with other systems'', to invoke or regulate them, to achieve specific goals, including altering a physical environment, as [[HAL 9000|HAL]] in  ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' was both programmed and tasked to.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/03inductees/hal.html |title=HAL 9000 |website=Robot Hall of Fame |publisher=Robot Hall of Fame, Carnegie Science Center |access-date=July 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917134208/http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/03inductees/hal.html |archive-date=September 17, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>