The human brain is far from analogous to a frozen set of weights, as it has immense capacity to learn*. The static part of the human brain might be its architecture. It’s valid to say “Humans have gotten a lot smarter through cultural and technological evolution while our architecture (brain) has remained mostly the same throughout this time.” and infer from that that AI agents that can modify their architecture could go further.
Good clarification, I’ve edited my original comment with your suggestion. I had intended to mean that because our DNA hasn’t changed much, our brain architecture hasn’t either, but that wasn’t really clear from what I actually wrote.
The human brain is far from analogous to a frozen set of weights, as it has immense capacity to learn*. The static part of the human brain might be its architecture. It’s valid to say “Humans have gotten a lot smarter through cultural and technological evolution while our architecture (brain) has remained mostly the same throughout this time.” and infer from that that AI agents that can modify their architecture could go further.
*see more by Steven Byrnes on different types of learning
Good clarification, I’ve edited my original comment with your suggestion. I had intended to mean that because our DNA hasn’t changed much, our brain architecture hasn’t either, but that wasn’t really clear from what I actually wrote.