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An example that stuck with me was on a windy day when I saw a seagull approach a telephone pole, coming in with the wind, turning 180 degrees and landing neatly
by eitland 9y ago
An example that stuck with me was on a windy day when I saw a seagull approach a telephone pole, coming in with the wind, turning 180 degrees and landing neatly facing the wind.
The brain of those creatures are tiny. No scientists are handholding them as they grow up.
Yet they manage to search vast areas for food, learn new ideas like stealing from shops and tourists and even as you mention - self replicate.
Yes, while AI is improving we are orders of magnitude away from replicating animals.
- tinymollusk 9y agoI can't wait to see what AI can do with the collective time and resources it took for that seagull to evolve.
- eitland 9y agoThat's a good point. My point is it seems we are still quite a few steps behind.
- fjsolwmv 9y agoWe can land a rocket on the noon without steering it after launch. Can a seagull do that?
- roywiggins 9y agoSomething like it has been tried... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
- tinymollusk 9y agoIs that true, and is that objectively more impressive? To the former, I always assumed there were in flight adjustments after launch. Elon's roadster had inaccurate calculations, I heard they were off by like 2%. I assumed the moon landing was similar.
- eitland 9y agoHow many thousand people were involved? How many tons of steel? And it isn't even selv-replicating. As impressive as the moon landing is it is a totally different thing (and has very little to do with AI.)