>We are nowhere near that. Just getting AI to perform at the level of an actual insect would be a huge achievement (but then, how would we know we're there?), s

>We are nowhere near that. Just getting AI to perform at the level of an actual insect would be a huge achievement (but then, how would we know we're there?), scaling from that will require a whole bunch of big breakthroughs in a whole bunch of fields. I think if you try to add up in your mind all the interconnected datacenters, cameras, and industry in the world, you can easily arrive at something at least insect-like, definitely bacterium-like.