The Future of AI is Biological: how a whole organism approach to AI will solve AGI, machine consciousness, and may help make life better

Studying the human organism allows AI and Robotics designers to draw inspiration from nature at many levels and in many regards, in principles and function, for engineering new materials, mechanisms, and algorithms, and efforts to create AI and robots as self-regulating artificial lifeforms. Here the presenter describe a novel embodied AI framework using a human-inspired AI cognitive system with robotic hardware embodiment, including naturalistic humanlike face, hands and arms, locomotion, and an extensive software suite including diverse AI algorithms, computer animation tools, and application authoring tools, for exploring humanlike cognition as a holistic, embodied phenomenon. While many morphologies and appearances can be useful for AI agents and robots, humanlike or humanizing AI and robots can especially satisfy the human need for character social interaction, and this can be useful for human-centric AI applications, and for training human-level humanlike AI, by emulating the human functionality.