Why don't biologists use biology to create super intelligence instead of CS engineers making computer AI?

Many people mistake Artificial Intelligence to some self-thinking program but it's just a bunch of "if" and "else" code statements written by a programmer in a certain language like python or c.
True AI would have self-awareness, reasoning, self-thinking and that's a thing a person from medical and biological background could create not computer engineers and programmers.
Programmers only create set of instructions for a machine.

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jomsim · 26-30, M

I agree with you that "programmed" AI is a bit basic and is never going to be up to much. But "learning" AI, like generative adversarial networks do take some of the model from how mammal brains work. It's just a simple silicon version of what our carbon does, but its getting better. There are already areas where it's better at some things than our own brains are. When it's better than our brains at 50% of what we do, then we'll have genuinely created something that can outpace us.

Authoritarian · 22-25, M

AI becoming better and accurate doesn't mean they outpace humans.
Accuracy is mathematical, we need psychological results.
Infact, when the AI starts taking risks, starts making errors and feels sorry for the error ( which is an emotion ) that's when we can say the AI has genuinely became better.

My point is that the whole AI thing is on the wrong track.
Silicon can never replace carbon, our brain has chemical reaction and biological reactions.
The laws of chemistry cannot be broken but chemistry and biology can come together to form a real ai.

jomsim · 26-30, M

@Authoritarian But surely we are just biological machines and, at the lowest level, our intelligence is a biological neural network. If another network works in the same way, but non-biologically, that fact alone wouldn't make it different. Where it would be different is that we can't replicate the inputs and the impact of our sensory experience. The silicon would evidently have a different psychology, if you want to call it that, but different doesn't mean inferior.