How about learning e.g car driving?
False, to invent car.
People manage to learn to operate cars in less than 50 hours
The GP is pointing out that training in fine muscle motor skills, self-awareness and ability to project self-awareness to other objects under ones control etc, all took many thousands of years to develop. AI is faster.
However, it's again unfair, as AI only knows what it knows from us, so in that sense any comparison is built on shaky ground.
But for the purposes of comparing a stock human brain as hardware, versus a current high-end GPU specifically in terms of ingesting information and then perform tasks, the GPU beats the human brain "hands-down" in any category.
The only categories it doesn't are simply ones that no one has trained it to yet - so the argument on a pure hardware capability basis stands.
It's just the wrong way to look at the problem. You're not trying to develop the generic system that can learn how to drive a car, you're trying to develop the specific system that can safely drive a car occupied by humans, naturally employing machine learning.
I would argue that we're 95% there, but solving those last 5% is exponentially more expensive, but not commensurately more valuable. There's a "profit ceiling" imposed by the cost of a human driver, which appeats to make solving the problem economically intractable.
Here's a video of Tesla FSD driving through the complicated streets of Los Angeles for an hour straight, with 0 human intervention.
In compare to human's tens of hours?
We have to include our evolutionary process because a lot of our brain is pretrained, especially visual/motor neurons.
We seem to be pretrained to pick up language, for example, and the language(s) we hear after being born fill that space, our brains are plastic for a reason.
On top of typically around 18 years of learning to process and fuse vision, sound, proprioception and other inputs, to navigate the world and reason about it.
2. 16 years of fine-tuning to adapt to the current modern world.
3. 50-100 hours of specific task based fine-tuning for driving, think LORA training.