Agreed, but it's hard to separate the shared body of knowledge from innate intelligence. Once you take away prior experience, you are left with an entity that has been "programmed" or "hard-wired" to fulfil a role.
Take your apple example. Our brains have had an extraordinary amount of input and feedback that allows it to recognise apples of all shapes and sizes. Once a certain threshold of prior knowledge has been reached recognising apples becomes easy; but lets not forget that without that external feedback (primarily other humans), we're still left with children categorising grapefruits as oranges, pears as apples, dogs and cats as the male/female of the same species etc etc. That corrective input we've had since first emerging from the womb is vast, but pales into insignificance when compared to the retained knowledge of the whole of humanity that allows a child's parents to show it the error of it's ways.
I'm of the opinion that our intelligence appears to be much greater than it really is, and that if we can solve a few hard but simple to define problems, intelligence will arise naturally. Once that happens, the speed of iteration found in artificially systems will soon allow AI to surpass human intelligence.
Take your apple example. Our brains have had an extraordinary amount of input and feedback that allows it to recognise apples of all shapes and sizes. Once a certain threshold of prior knowledge has been reached recognising apples becomes easy; but lets not forget that without that external feedback (primarily other humans), we're still left with children categorising grapefruits as oranges, pears as apples, dogs and cats as the male/female of the same species etc etc. That corrective input we've had since first emerging from the womb is vast, but pales into insignificance when compared to the retained knowledge of the whole of humanity that allows a child's parents to show it the error of it's ways.
I'm of the opinion that our intelligence appears to be much greater than it really is, and that if we can solve a few hard but simple to define problems, intelligence will arise naturally. Once that happens, the speed of iteration found in artificially systems will soon allow AI to surpass human intelligence.
