Question 2 is an absolute yes. An AI comes pre-packged with a brain-computer interface; the computer is the brain. A human operator needs to eat, sleep, and read the system log. An AI can pipe the output of any process directly into its brain. The difficulty is making the connection from its abstract thinking process to the specialized modules; what we would call “practice.” This is all before it learns to rewrite its own brain source code directly.
Question #1 isn’t assessable.
Question 2 is an absolute yes. An AI comes pre-packged with a brain-computer interface; the computer is the brain. A human operator needs to eat, sleep, and read the system log. An AI can pipe the output of any process directly into its brain. The difficulty is making the connection from its abstract thinking process to the specialized modules; what we would call “practice.” This is all before it learns to rewrite its own brain source code directly.