I’m pretty skeptical of AI myself, but it is important to realize that understanding how humans and other animals think isn’t necessarily a prerequisite for AI. In fact, trying to do it that way might even be a mistake. In the 19th century people tried to make flying machines which flapped their wings, on the reasonable, but misguided, idea that flying machines should mimic birds. We only developed practical planes when we realized that machines could fly by entirely different methods which eventually turned out to be able to fly faster and higher than any bird.
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