> "We don't fully understand how a bird works, and thus: "wind tunnel" is useless, Wright brothers are utter fools, what their crude mechanical contraptions are doing isn't actually flight, and heavier than air flight is obviously unattainable."
Completely false equivalency. We did in fact back then completely understand "how a bird works", how the physics of flight work. The problem getting man-made flying vehicles off the ground was mostly about not having good enough materials to build one (plus some economics-related issues).
Whereas in case of AI, we are very far from even slightly understanding how our brains work, how the actual thinking happens.
One of the Wright brothers achievements was to realize the published tables of flight physics was wrong and to carefully redo it with their own wind tunnel until they had a correct model from which to design a flying vehicle
https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2019/07/historical-humans-of-...
Completely false equivalency. We did in fact back then completely understand "how a bird works", how the physics of flight work. The problem getting man-made flying vehicles off the ground was mostly about not having good enough materials to build one (plus some economics-related issues).
Whereas in case of AI, we are very far from even slightly understanding how our brains work, how the actual thinking happens.