I think part of the problem is that humans like to define their own intelligence in grandiose terms. Prior to their being solved, object identification, human-level speech recognition, handwriting recognition, machine translation and many other tasks were thought to require general intelligence. But once we got the machines doing them for us, we decided they weren't so hard after all. From this you can conclude one of two things:
1. We're on the wrong track, and don't understand our own intellects at all.
2. Human intelligence is just a collection of these same hacks, possibly ensembled by some relatively thin meta-algorithm.
1. We're on the wrong track, and don't understand our own intellects at all.
2. Human intelligence is just a collection of these same hacks, possibly ensembled by some relatively thin meta-algorithm.