Animals are indeed smarter than AI for certain aspects of intelligence (physical intelligence). Evolution has optimized animal brain and bodies to survive and

Animals are indeed smarter than AI for certain aspects of intelligence (physical intelligence). Evolution has optimized animal brain and bodies to survive and take care of the next generation. They have a good grasp of environment, where they are, where food is, where predators are, basic communication if they live as a group. Babies grow up and start learning. Our current AI is extremely power hungry compared to a brain. Cruise & Waymo put large power hungry supercomputers in cars. The computing system costs 100k+. They still make silly mistakes like crashing into fire trucks, blocking roads, driving into wet cement etc. ChatGPT and friends make silly mistakes for trivial math problems that require a few hierarchical planning steps. All in all, brains have some form of symbolic computation and reasoning that we haven’t been able to replicate with current AI algorithms. I’m not saying we’ll never be able to but current AI is really hyped. Kinda like crypto boom of 2019. There are some really hard algorithmic problems to be solved. Google, Microsoft, Meta could have 1000x more computing power and data, however in the grand space or all algorithms there exists a learning algorithm that is probably >10000X more efficient at generalized modeling and reasoning than what we have. The proof that we (20W biological generally intelligent computers) exist validates the hypothesis that there is a lot of advancement we can still do at the algorithm part.