According to my understanding, AI hype big corps spend a whole country's energy resource to produce learning software and hardware which can do a very little things for us. 
On the other hands, a parrot can learn how to talk with men with just a few grams of nutrition. Also, my little puppy learnt how to do simple house hood things for me in just a few minutes and a few grams fo nutrition. 
Which one of these examples are more intelligent and energy efficient?
Had we better use those astronomical sum of money and resources on investigating deeper natural laws such as room temperature superconductivity, novel material and crystal, higher energy experiments beyond the Large Hadron Collider, nuclear fusion experiments, etc.?
