Not really a fair comparison but children learn to speak with barely any training data compared to LLMs. I’m hopeful a large training corpus will not be so necessary in the future.
I suspect that we won't have the computing power or neurological understanding to create such an AI anytime soon. Even if human thought can be reduced to networks of chemical-filled membranes, the timescale and population involved in natural selection, and the resources consumed to live and reproduce are immense. I think we would need to find a far more efficient scheme to produce emergent intelligence.
I would argue that by the time a child learns to speak at the level of an LLM (college) they have been exposed to an enormous amount of training data through all the their sensory inputs, just as a result of daily living and interactions.
