> Those are physics problems that animals, including humans, know how to solve
No, those are problems that animals and humans solve, not know how to solve. I'm not the greatest expert of biochemistry that ever lived because of what goes on in my cells.
Now, I understand perfectly well the argument that "even small animals do things that our machines cannot do". That's been indisputably true for a long time. Today, it seems that the be more a matter of embodiment and speed of processing rather than a level of intelligence out of our reach. We already have machines that understand natural language perfectly well and display higher cognitive abilities than any other animal- including abstract reasoning, creating and understanding metaphors, following detailed instructions, writing fiction, etc.
No, those are problems that animals and humans solve, not know how to solve. I'm not the greatest expert of biochemistry that ever lived because of what goes on in my cells.
Now, I understand perfectly well the argument that "even small animals do things that our machines cannot do". That's been indisputably true for a long time. Today, it seems that the be more a matter of embodiment and speed of processing rather than a level of intelligence out of our reach. We already have machines that understand natural language perfectly well and display higher cognitive abilities than any other animal- including abstract reasoning, creating and understanding metaphors, following detailed instructions, writing fiction, etc.