To be clear the comparison to animal brains is one of roughly equivalent capabilities/intelligence and ultimately—economic value. A direct model of even a small animal brain—like that of a honey bee—may very well come after AGI, because of lack of economic incentives.
It still seems like we could test this assumption by doing something along the lines of training a neural network to perform as well as a cat’s visual cortex on image recognition. I predict that if this was done in a way that accounted for the flexibility of real animals that the AI wouldn’t perform better than an animal at around cat or raven level
We already have trained ANNs to perform as well as human visual cortex on image recognition, so I don’t quite get what you mean by “accounted for the flexibility of real animals”. And LLMs perform as well as human linguistic cortex in most respects.
To be clear the comparison to animal brains is one of roughly equivalent capabilities/intelligence and ultimately—economic value. A direct model of even a small animal brain—like that of a honey bee—may very well come after AGI, because of lack of economic incentives.
We already have trained ANNs to perform as well as human visual cortex on image recognition, so I don’t quite get what you mean by “accounted for the flexibility of real animals”. And LLMs perform as well as human linguistic cortex in most respects.