> I guess most learning starts with and happens through mimicry. I guess we're just learning to make better and better AIs. For all the actual "intelligence" t

> I guess most learning starts with and happens through mimicry. I guess we're just learning to make better and better AIs. For all the actual "intelligence" these mimics are displaying so far, the question is what exactly they're mimicking. If, as seems palusible to me, they aren't on the path of, say, a human baby -- i.e. beginning to form a mental model of physical facts, logical connections, and causal relations -- but just regurgitating input, then maybe what "we" are just to make is better and better earthworms, not primates.