>Biology seems much more brute force in comparison.
A singly honeybee with its billion synapses can adapt to a variety of situations and environments, learn on-the-fly, perform complex sequences of tasks, cooperate and communicate with other bees. All of these capabilities are emergent and packed in its tiny head.
State of the art artificial neural networks (ranging beyond billions of parameters now) only do the thing they're specifically built for, only after training with bazillion specific examples and consume tons of energy while doing so.
Which one of these sounds like the brute force approach?
The majority of behavior in organisms like bees is instinctual, not learned in their lifetime. That training required millions of billions of trials over the course of hundreds of millions of years.
>The majority of behavior in organisms like bees is instinctual, not learned in their lifetime.
It doesn't matter whether their behavior is considered "instinctual". What matters is that they can quickly adapt their behavior to entirely novel scenarios:
A singly honeybee with its billion synapses can adapt to a variety of situations and environments, learn on-the-fly, perform complex sequences of tasks, cooperate and communicate with other bees. All of these capabilities are emergent and packed in its tiny head.
State of the art artificial neural networks (ranging beyond billions of parameters now) only do the thing they're specifically built for, only after training with bazillion specific examples and consume tons of energy while doing so.
Which one of these sounds like the brute force approach?