Sensors and effectors in an AI context are not necessarily physical. They’re essentially the AI’s inputs and outputs, with a few constraints that are unimportant here; the terminology is a holdover from the days when everyone expected AI would be used primarily to run robots. We could be talking about web crawlers and Wikipedia edits, for example.
Fair point, though physical reality is still physical reality. If you need a breakthrough in building nanomachines, for example, you don’t get there by crawling the web really really fast.
Sensors and effectors in an AI context are not necessarily physical. They’re essentially the AI’s inputs and outputs, with a few constraints that are unimportant here; the terminology is a holdover from the days when everyone expected AI would be used primarily to run robots. We could be talking about web crawlers and Wikipedia edits, for example.
Fair point, though physical reality is still physical reality. If you need a breakthrough in building nanomachines, for example, you don’t get there by crawling the web really really fast.