I don’t know that intelligence will be “easy” but it doesn’t seem intuitive to me that evolution has optimized intelligence close to any sort of global maximum. Evolution is effective over deep time but is highly inefficient compared to more intelligent optimization processes like SGD (stochastic gradient descent) and incapable of planning ahead.
Even if we assume that evolution has provided the best possible solution within its constraints, what if we are no longer bounded by those constraints? A computer doesn’t have to adhere to the same limitations as an organic human (and some human limitations are really severe).
I don’t know that intelligence will be “easy” but it doesn’t seem intuitive to me that evolution has optimized intelligence close to any sort of global maximum. Evolution is effective over deep time but is highly inefficient compared to more intelligent optimization processes like SGD (stochastic gradient descent) and incapable of planning ahead.
Even if we assume that evolution has provided the best possible solution within its constraints, what if we are no longer bounded by those constraints? A computer doesn’t have to adhere to the same limitations as an organic human (and some human limitations are really severe).