The purpose of any scientific field is to generate knowledge, i.e. to actually understand the conceptual underpinnings of something like intelligence. This ide

The purpose of any scientific field is to generate knowledge, i.e. to actually understand the conceptual underpinnings of something like intelligence. This idea that all that's necessarily for engineering intelligence is throw some chemicals into a bucket and turn the heat on is bad. By that logic you can just write a universe simulator, wait a million years and maybe you solve AI as a side challenge. if AI is just evolution and genetics and genetics is just physics just solve that and we're good to go. It's like if someone tried to build a bridge and he just clobbers things together until it stands up and then prays that it doesn't fall down. That's not how engineering works obviously, but that's the attitude we have towards AI. What AI needs at this point is the very opposite. An actual theory of intelligence at a high level because we haven't really made progress on that front in decades.