The paper introduces a taxonomy of seven distinct sources that contribute to the formation of Physical AI capabilities: Recorded-Experience, Predictive-Modeling, Evaluative-Interaction, Surrogate-Environment, Mechanism-Grounded, Embodied-Coupling, and Evolution-Driven. Through a systematic review of 49 evidence records, the authors demonstrate that all identified capabilities can be explained by combinations of these sources, achieving theoretical saturation within their defined scope. The framework aims to differentiate how capabilities arise from how they appear, facilitating analysis of explanation, transfer, replication, and governance aspects.
arXiv:2608. 01548v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language-first intelligence is constrained by which distinctions enter its symbolic record, which mappings its language--interpreter--environment complex can execute, and which possibilities can be realized with finite resources.
arXiv:2606. 23991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What is an agent?
arXiv:2509. 14474v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The debate around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remains open due to two fundamentally different goals: replicating human-level performance versus replicating human-like cognitive processes.
Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: A Survey reviews how scaling LLMs leads to previously unseen capabilities such as advanced reasoning, in-context learning, coding, and problem-solving. The paper critically examines definitions, inconsistencies, and the conditions that foster these abilities, including scaling laws, task complexity, pre‑training loss, quantization, and prompting strategies. It also discusses the extension to Large Reasoning Models and highlights safety concerns like deception, manipulation, and reward hacking, calling for improved evaluation and governance.
The paper proposes a metric framework to differentiate cognitive amplification—where AI enhances human performance without eroding human capability—from cognitive delegation, which relies heavily on AI reasoning. It introduces four metrics (CAI*, D, HRI, HCDR) and tests them in NetLogo simulations across various reliance and dependency scenarios. The results show that positive collaborative gain is only achievable when an explicit interaction term is added, indicating that mere prevention of capability erosion is insufficient for genuine amplification.
arXiv:2603.27611v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When a cognitive system modifies its own functioning, what exactly does it modify: a low-level rule, a control rule, or the criterion that evaluate...
arXiv:2606. 12713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Claims that artificial general intelligence has already arrived and claims that it remains decades away are often defended from overlapping evidence.
arXiv:2609.16697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models connect perception and decision-making in embodied intelligence by maintaining hidden state, anticipating consequences, comparing interv...
arXiv:2606. 13196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent AI systems can generate texts, software architectures, hypotheses, designs, and scientific workflows that appear creative.
arXiv:2607. 11689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial general intelligence ultimately requires agents that can reason and act in the physical world.
arXiv:2606. 13196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent AI systems can generate texts, software architectures, hypotheses, designs, and scientific workflows that appear creative.
arXiv:2608. 10601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two instruments of EU digital law place inference at their centre and mean different things by it.