&quot;You might as well argue that since heavier-than-air-flight is a search problem over an effectively infinite, high-dimensional landscape of possible machines - and that since it took evolution billions of years to produce birds, we have little chance of stumbling upon a working design for a wing.&quot;<p>Tired analogies between AI and flight are dead-ends. Until we have identified AI-side components of the analogy that corresponds to &quot;air&quot;, &quot;wing&quot;, &quot;lift&quot; &amp;c., the analogy is empty and unproductive.<p>IOW these analogies neither get us off the ground nor do they take us anywhere.