India, Dec. 26 -- In 2021, a Google engineer named Blaise Aguera y Arcas, in one of his early exchanges with LaMDA, a conversational artificial intelligence model, asked a pointed question - "Are you a philosophical zombie?" Unlike the sceptics who saw a glorified autocomplete, Aguera y Arcas, who is now VP, Fellow and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, saw something else: a mirror reflecting the same computational principles that power the human brain, a bacterium, and the evolution of life itself. In his provocative new book, What Is Intelligence? Aguera y Arcas dismantles the wall between biology and technology. Recognised as one of the inventors of federated learning, having first introduced the concept in 2016, Blaise believes in...