Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Artificially intelligent systems are unlike other intelligences in a crucial yet vastly under-appreciated respect. For anaturally-evolved species, its survival needs are not only what ought to properly measure that species intelligence, butalso what most fundamentally shape it. However, artificial systems are not shaped by evolutionary forces. Instead, wemust provide for such systems a suitable equivalent for the evolutionary shaping of a natural species intelligence. But wecannot. As a result, I maintain that we cannot currently develop artificial systems that are intelligent in anything like theway that the members of a naturally-evolved species are intelligent. On any of the main approaches to AIwhether classical,deep learning, or a combination of bothwe must either explicitly represent or instead replicate a suitable equivalent forwhat evolution provides in its shaping of a naturally-evolved species intelligence. I maintain that is unclear how to do anysuch thing.