[waboremo]

That is pretty much the case, but I'm always taken back by how many people believe intelligence = directly replicating human thought. I thought the common consensus was instead that (artificial) intelligence was instead about mimicking enough of the process to provide the outcome. Largely because it's impossible to replicate something when we don't entirely know how it works. Major discoveries of basic aspects of the mind are still happening regularly.

[textninja]

> Largely because it's impossible to replicate something when we don't entirely know how it works.

On the contrary. These are mostly orthogonal.

[waboremo]

How do you believe they're orthogonal?

[textninja]

Biological reproduction for one. Copy/paste for another. Biological reproduction is only tenuously related to understanding and copy/paste isn’t even related at all. We can copy around weights and biases all day without understanding them.

[waboremo]

Makes sense, you've changed my mind a bit but only the part that consciously understands.