“No need to stress about the coming of Artificial General Intelligence if Artificial Worm Intelligence remains such a distant impossibility.”
– Writer and musician
Claire L. Evans, finding comfort in the fact that researchers still cannot model the mind of a worm. Reflecting on her March
WIRED feature, Evans notes that despite decades of study, simulating 308 neurons of ‘worm intelligence’ remains elusive—demonstrating how “mightily naive we are about the possibility of truly imitating life.”