Human intelligence is so much more than that. I feel like we vastly underestimate the problem when we make it sound so simple. "Oh well the machines are basical

Human intelligence is so much more than that. I feel like we vastly underestimate the problem when we make it sound so simple. "Oh well the machines are basically the same as us, so we just have to get them to be able to solve more sub-problems and then we've got it!" Right now the focus is on solving important specific sub-problems better humans, rather than the ability to solve a much wider variety of sub-problems. The focus is there because there are business applications and money there. Do researchers really think that some version of a chess-bot or go-bot or cat-image-bot or jeopardy-bot will just "wake up" one day when it reaches some threshold? That this approach is truly the best path to AGI? A machine can play chess better than a human because the human used its knowledge to build a chess-playing machine. That's all it can do. It takes chess inputs and produces chess outputs. It doesn't know why it's playing chess. It didn't choose to learn chess because it seemed interesting or valuable. No machine has ever displayed any form of "agency." A chatbot that learns from a corpus of text and rehashes it to produce "realistic" text doesn't count either. You could argue many of the same things about humans themselves. Consciousness is an illusion, we don't have true agency either, we also just rehash words we've heard - I believe these things. But it seems clear to me that what is going on inside a human brain is so far beyond what we have gotten machines to do. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that we underwent a developmental process of billions of years, being molded and built up for the specific purpose of surviving in our environment. Computers have none of that. We built a toy that can do some tricks. Compared to the absolute insanity of biological life, it's a joke. I think it is such hubris to say that we're anywhere close to figuring out how to make something that rivals our own intelligence, which itself is well beyond our comprehension.