My take on that is that mammalian intelligence was already a massively powerful thing, and just needed to stumble into some sort of trick to make it more, I don't know, recursive? to start the emerging human dominance. I'd bet money that going from a genuinely wolf-level AI we understand from first principles to a human-level AI is much easier than going from AIBO to the level of an actual wolf.
The problem with intuiting about this is that assessing animal intelligence is a lot harder for us than assessing human intelligence. It's Moravec's paradox all over again, the thing that seems so simple to us we used to think of it as an absence of skill rather than a skill, behaving like an animal, might be the hardest thing in making an AI.
The problem with intuiting about this is that assessing animal intelligence is a lot harder for us than assessing human intelligence. It's Moravec's paradox all over again, the thing that seems so simple to us we used to think of it as an absence of skill rather than a skill, behaving like an animal, might be the hardest thing in making an AI.