“Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to ‘discover’ that—where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.”—Marvin Minsky
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/AlienIntelligence.html
It may be easier with already evolved intelligence.
“Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to ‘discover’ that—where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.”—Marvin Minsky
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/AlienIntelligence.html
It may be easier with already evolved intelligence.