Comment Re: That's not the same thing (Score 1) 291
AI is missing quite a few of the pieces we have, or even a small animal has. It'll get there, but not today. They can display an impressive level of reasoning that comes from using language as a tool like we do, front loaded with a shitload of training, but consciousness is a continuous process, and they're not doing that.
A squirrel will always empty any birdfeeder it's faced with, it learns as it goes, they don't come pre-trained with millions of squirrel-birdfeeder scenarios, and do it all without the help of a language.
We could model billions of squirrel behaviors and make something that passes sort of, but it's not the same thing as switching on a tiny squirrel brain, continuously modeling the world around it and just being a squirrel without having observed billions of them already. I'd bet on a squirrel that has never seen a bird feeder before over a complex model of squirrel behavior that hasn't seen one. That's a no brainer.