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by weavejester
1330 days ago
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Biological brains have had a few billion years to optimize. Over the past decade or two, it's been increasingly apparent that the structure and algorithms that govern a particular neural net's behaviour are extremely important to its efficacy. We likely have a very warped view of what intelligence is, because the most prominent examples of it have been aggressively honed over an extremely long period of time to be good at tasks crucial to their survival, such as effectively navigating a 3D environment. We consider art to be a difficult and complex task, and making a sandwich to be a simple one, but that's because our particular brand of intelligence is optimized toward the latter. |
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Not just that, but it's grown on a body which has been optimized for survival during a few billion years; and that body is built on cells that have evolved to survive hostile environments, and those cells are built with self-replicating molecules, evolving from complex chemical reactions in several changing environments, that competed with and displaced other less-successful self-replicating molecules that disappeared.
Each of those layers provides a degree of adaptability and self-healing that is extremely hard to replicate. And if we managed to reverse-engineer and replicate one of those layers, it would still be missing all the layers below.
Our best hope to create fully independent agents will come from re-adapting and controlling biological entities, not from tools built from the ground up with current engineering techniques.