I admit to finding AI fascinating, especially as I have a background in software. It seems to me to prove intelligent design more than anything natural I have seen before. If you produce a very powerful AI system (usually it would be a large language model, LLM), you can from this produce any number of smaller and smaller systems with more limited capabilities but still very intelligent and sophisticated, despite their size. Distillation, they call this. This is opposite to producing a very weak system from the start which would likely be too error prone to handle navigation of the real world and problems and tasks. The distillation seems to be a much better analogy for what we see in Nature. A human brain is still more sophisticated than AI today. Maybe not for long. Then there are other, smaller species than humans whose brains need not be so intelligent but nonetheless they need to be powerful enough for real world needs like building nest, weaving webs, catching smaller creatures, invading a host, spreading themselves in reproduction. Even ants with tiny brains need sophistication. The Evolution Theory that primitive species evolved into complex, advanced species seems not as good an explanation as one where mighty intelligence produced smaller intelligences. Something that intelligent would have needed to be far more advanced. Like the mightiest imaginable AI system but much greater still. It must be to have distilled the human brain. How long before such common sense prevails among scientists? Maybe AI will figure it out before they do.
