Even dog-like intelligence would be extremely useful. It's interesting when training a dog. Sometimes you can see the gears turning and know their thought proc

Even dog-like intelligence would be extremely useful. It's interesting when training a dog. Sometimes you can see the gears turning and know their thought process and conclusion before they do, since we are just much smarter. And other times, they come up with something that makes no sense at all based on their "dog logic". I guess their brain just works differently. Anyway, focusing on simply humans may be short sighted. I often understand systems better by comparing them to similar systems and working out the differences. If anything bears fruit I think it'll be the researchers that are starting small and trying to replicate a worm brain. Then build from there, faster than evolution, because we can.