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by shahbaby 2142 days ago
Unless we've specifically defined intelligence in a way that reflects ourselves.

The useful things that we want to get out of an AI system, i.e generalized learning of abstract concepts, are most clearly demonstrated by the human brain.

Since we now seem to prefer down votes over discussion, I'll just leave this with my own speculation that the reason for this strange avoidance of the brain is that it's a dead end for both academia and industry.

It's much easier and more profitable to expand on already existing machine learning technologies than to try and find some revolutionary breakthrough in neuroscience.

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Well we accepted that animals are intelligent too (no really long ago but still), even that something like a swarm-intelligence exists, but yeah i know what you mean.

EDIT: Wow you changed your comment that much that my comment makes nearly no sense anymore.