...on #embodiment, and several companies are working on that front. The very basic reason being 3-fold:
1) IMO real-time and sensory data access is necessary for consciousness
2) several (non-computer) scientists agree that a corporal, physical presence is a step in evolution.
3) The moment an #AI is hooked up to sensory data world wide, it will be a tremendous amount of data very different from texts and videos. Once it learns to use it somewhere, all connected #AIs know this at once.