Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 45 of 68
Evolution has already solved intelligence
In one sense, the problem of creating intelligent agents has already been solved. Over the course of the earth’s 4.5 billion years of history, evolution has solved the problem over and over again. Mammals arrived 370 million years ago. Our last common ancestor with the apes started milling around 5 million years ago.