Vision has evolved frequently and quickly in the animal kingdom.

Conscious intelligence has not.

As another argument, we've had mathematical descriptions of optics, drawing algorithms, fixed function pipeline, ray tracing, and so much more rich math for drawing and animating.

Smart, thinking machines? We haven't the faintest idea.

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Animats 4 days ago | parent [-]

> Vision has evolved frequently and quickly in the animal kingdom. Conscious intelligence has not.

Three times, something like intelligence has evolved - in mammals, octopuses, and corvids. Completely different neural architectures in those unrelated speces.

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nick__m 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why carve out the corvid from the other birds ? Some parots and parakeets species are playing in the same league as the corvids.

	▲	Animats 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Paper on this:[1] Corvids show problem-solving ability comparable to apes but lack a cortex. [1] https://homepage.uni-tuebingen.de/andreas.nieder/Nieder%20(2...

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echelon 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I won't judge our distant relatives, the cephalopods and chicken theropods, but we big apes are pretty dumb.

Even with what we've got, it took us hundreds of thousands of years to invent indoor plumbing.

Vision, I still submit, is much simpler than "intelligence". It's evolved independently almost a hundred times.

It's also hypothesized that it takes as few as a hundred thousand years to evolve advanced eye optics:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1994.004...

Even plants can sense the visual and physical world. Three dimensional spatial relationships and paths and rays through them are not hard.