[webmaven]

> But we're still at the point where we don't understand intelligence as well as we understood aerodynamics when building the first planes

Actually, I'd say that our understanding of intelligence is right about at the level of aerodynamics at the dawn of heavier than air flight:

https://youtu.be/Sp7MHZY2ADI

https://youtu.be/gN-ZktmjIfE

I mean, we could quibble about exactly where we are pre- or post-Wright Flyer, but given the amount of AI research that amounts to brute-force flailing about in search of incremental improvements, disagreements on the importance of "biological plausibility" and so on, it's pretty clear that, roughly speaking, AI is currently somewhere in the equivalent of the Lilienthal-Langley-Wright-Curtis continuum (ie. 1890-1910-ish) and still prior to the most important theoretical breakthroughs. IOW, AI has not in my opinion yet achieved an equivalent to aerodynamics' Prandtl lifting-line theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting-line_theory