The important divergence point between humans and other hominids isn’t intelligence per se (though that plays a large part), it’s language along with abstract thought, counterfactuals and all that good stuff, which then allow for cultural transmission. They were fully formed and working for quite a while (like 100k years ago) before FOOMing around 10k years ago. And this wasn’t triggered by greater intelligence, but by greater density (via agriculture).
If you only feed the NNs with literature, wikipedia, blog posts etc., then you could be right about the limitations. Thing is, though, the resulting AIs are only a very small subset of possible AIs. There are many other ways to provide data, any one of which could be the equivalent of agriculture.
Also, evolution is very limited in how it can introduce changes. AI development is not.
This sounds a lot like the arguments around punctuated equilibrium and gradualism. It’s a matter of perspective.
The important divergence point between humans and other hominids isn’t intelligence per se (though that plays a large part), it’s language along with abstract thought, counterfactuals and all that good stuff, which then allow for cultural transmission. They were fully formed and working for quite a while (like 100k years ago) before FOOMing around 10k years ago. And this wasn’t triggered by greater intelligence, but by greater density (via agriculture).
If you only feed the NNs with literature, wikipedia, blog posts etc., then you could be right about the limitations. Thing is, though, the resulting AIs are only a very small subset of possible AIs. There are many other ways to provide data, any one of which could be the equivalent of agriculture.
Also, evolution is very limited in how it can introduce changes. AI development is not.