Another article reinforcing my belief that framing AGI research as a quest for "human-level" AI is misguided. The type of intelligence we are looking for is actually animal intelligence. The higher level human abilities are mainly just higher levels of characteristics that most animals have.
The idea is to make artificual human intelligence so that it can help with tasks that humans can do. If we make rabbit AI, it's not particularly useful, and while I am sure it can be a stepping stone (but we already have plenty of those, starting a model of a neuron), the goal is a human AI (and beyond). The human AI is one of the most important steps and points on the jorney, much more so than a rabbit AI. So not misguided at all.
Point is that animal AI is the stepping stone because it has almost all of the human abilities. Where as aiming for higher level human abilities is the wrong starting point.
