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tomrod parent
I disagree strongly. AI came from smart engineering and design applied to algorithms developed for intellectual curiosity. It was absolutely invented.
amelius
Well, intelligence evolved over millions of years without design (assuming you are not religious).

This all happened without anyone even looking for a way to create intelligence.

The biggest step in AI was the invention of the artificial neural network. However, it is still a copy of nature's work, and in fact you could argue that even the inventor is nature's work. So there's a big argument in favor of "it arrived".

tomrod OP
Not all AI algorithms are neural networks. So from the get go, you are conflating terms to propose an underspecified and improperly esoteric worldview.

We invented AI. That the structure of a neuron inspired one subsystem architecture framework offers nothing essentialist or sacrosanct to the whole enterprise.

Sticks were our first clubs, but we don't limit our design and engineering for tools or weapons to the nature of trees. We extract good principles and invent the form as well as, often, the function.

qlm
Everything that has been "invented" was invented by humans and on some level depends on the laws of nature to function.

I recently bought whey protein powder that doesn't come from milk. It was synthesized by human-engineered microbes. Did this invention "arrive"?

kreetx
"Intelligence" is too vague. Do you mean neural nets in our heads developed in millions of years? Do we know that it is a neural net?

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