[machina_ex_deus]

Billions of creatures with stronger neutral networks, more parameters, better input have lived on earth for millions of years, but only now something like humans showed up. I fully expect AI to do everything animals can do pretty soon, but since whatever it is that differentiates humans didn't happen for million of years, there's good chance AGI research will get stuck at a similar point.

[icoder]

Nature has the advantage of self organisation and (partially because of that) parallelism, that's proved hard to mimic in man made devices. But on the other hand, nature also has obstacles such as energy consumption, procreation & development, and survival, that AI doesn't have to worry about.

I think finding a niche for humans has proved difficult especially because of those reasons, and AI can take those hurdles much easier.

[otikik]

Change arrives gradually, and then suddenly.

It takes nature thousands of years to create a rock that looks like a face, just by using geology. A human can do that in a couple hours. And then this AI can generate 50 3d human faces per second (assuming enough CPU).

It could be that an AGI is around the corner, as they say. We might not be machines, but are way faster than nature at reaching places. We don't have the option of waiting for thousands of years.