Machines by themselves don't and will never understand data, what we feed into the machine must be carefully clean, it won't work at the first run and it is necessary to have at least an idea of the why it isn't working...
Even if the software is trivial, and is not, is still necessary a lot of specialized, high skilled, work to make the whole AI deal work...
Not to mention that to collect data you need well crafted software...
>Machines by themselves don't and will never understand data.
The apocryphal "nobody will ever use more than 640kb" should have taught us to never say never. Of course machines will understand data. Dirty data, full of errors, unfiltered and non curated. Just like we do.
Until they learn to think by themselves and release Skynet upon us....
Jokes aside, it if perfectly natural that if we ever manage to understand how biological computers work, we might be able to make them think just like us.
It doesn't need to be now, it can take a few hundred years more, assuming we don't destroy ourselves until then.
But you need guidance throughout your life to understand things and build knowledge. You can have a computer as sophisticated as a human brain. I am sure in the history of evolution our human ancestors did not told by a deer how to start a fire, or make clothes. But I think they slowly build up the knowledge, and pass to the next generation. You are right that there is brain in DNA.
Even if the software is trivial, and is not, is still necessary a lot of specialized, high skilled, work to make the whole AI deal work...
Not to mention that to collect data you need well crafted software...