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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4meAndyou · F

They are developing AI now that learns.

https://newatlas.com/artificial-intelligence-program-imitates-child-cognitive-development/33972/

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603381/ai-software-learns-to-make-ai-software/

I also read an article in Popular Mechanics that was very interesting. Robots and AI were put completely in charge of running a warehouse, and the machines organized things in ways so foreign and alien to us that a human would never have been able to find anything. It was organized according to which items were frequent sellers...closest to the door, and so on.

Your thoughts about creating biological super intelligence can only be achieved safely through biological adaptation and through a breeding program, over a long period of time, eliminating factors such as pollution and poisons in the air and water.

All other biological super-intelligence programs would be entirely experimental, and might result in madness or death.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@4meAndyou While a breeding program would be far from ineffectual, the timescale you'd be operating on would be pretty long and it'd be very difficult to get a large enough base of volunteers by ethical means. While there would inevitably be experimentation involved somewhere down the line with a CRISPR superintelligence program, basically all medical endeavors are at some point experimental and get safer over time.

That said, there's obviously a timescale issue here, and I don't think we're ready to start pullin' that kind of shit just yet...

4meAndyou · F

@BlueVeins It's a very Hitlerian concept...the creation of a master super-intelligence instead of the creation of a master race, but essentially the same idea. I used to read sci-fi, and Robert L. Heinlein wrote a series which contained a character named Lazarus Long, who was incredibly long lived. His fictional character created the Lazarus Long Foundation, and they would actually approach people who had a record of long lived ancestors, intelligence, and good health, and paid them to have children.

I believe that for the super-intelligence idea to work, there would also have to be a constant need for it in the environment itself. Our bodies and minds adapt to environmental demands.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@4meAndyou That sounds like a really exciting series. And even aside from the limited intelligence problem, the degredation of human DNA is only going to get worse until we either fall from our post and suffer greater environmental demands or engineer our way out of it. 😟

4meAndyou · F

@BlueVeins Medical science is actually interfering with natural selection, polluting our gene pool through unnatural extension of human life. You reap what you sow.