The thing is, it’s not. Evolution is optimizing for the amount of descendants. Nothing more. If being more intelligent is the way forward—nice! If having blue hair results in even more children—even better! Intelligence just happens to be what evolution decided for humans. Daisies happened to come up with liking closely cropped grasslands, which is also currently a very good strategy (lawns). The point is that evolution chooses what to try totally at random, and whatever works is good. Even if it causes complexity to be reduced, e.g. snakes loosing legs, or cave fish loosing eyes.
AI work, on the other hand, is focused on specific outcome spaces, trying things which seem reasonable and avoiding things which have no chance of working. This massively simplifies things, as you can massively lower the number of combinations needed to be checked.
The thing is, it’s not. Evolution is optimizing for the amount of descendants. Nothing more. If being more intelligent is the way forward—nice! If having blue hair results in even more children—even better! Intelligence just happens to be what evolution decided for humans. Daisies happened to come up with liking closely cropped grasslands, which is also currently a very good strategy (lawns). The point is that evolution chooses what to try totally at random, and whatever works is good. Even if it causes complexity to be reduced, e.g. snakes loosing legs, or cave fish loosing eyes.
AI work, on the other hand, is focused on specific outcome spaces, trying things which seem reasonable and avoiding things which have no chance of working. This massively simplifies things, as you can massively lower the number of combinations needed to be checked.