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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Northwest · M

The way you describe AI, is not really how it works, but you're not that far off from the truth either.

Calling today's technology AI, is a misnomer. We're not there yet.

What we have today is a combination of two fields: Knowledge-Based Expert Systems (KBES) and Problem Solving Systems (PSS).

KBES, use a combination of natural language processing, machine learning, statistical analysis, data collection, search algorithms, image recognition, vision, robotics, sensors (and I will stop here for brevity).

PSS: is what the name implies.

When combined, systems can start to "think" and "predict".

"AI" systems, still rely on heuristics (using "knowledge" acquired through KBES, to develop simple, but not optimal solutions to a problem), but cannot, yet, roam on their own. They can be left to their own devices, but given the state of technology, and its limitations, they will not be able to function like humans, with human intelligence.

We don't know yet what it takes to develop actual intelligence.

Biologists, and if by that you mean micro-biologists, are not in the Frankenstein business. Computer Science/Engineering and Microbiology, are merging, and will continue to merge. For the moment, the goal is to produce therapies. Cancer for instance, or genetic problems. So it's not the way you imagine it.

Eventually, I believe an Android is inevitable. We're probably centuries away from that.

Authoritarian · 22-25, M

Ok, thank you for enlightening me in this subject
I'm just a small web designer and use python for backend so don't much knowledge in the field..