Your example of a fruit fly is misinformed. The fruit fly "intelligence" you quote has as much to do with its physical properties as its "brain." The physics of insects is vastly different (weight and lift vs viscosity of air) of any man made flying machines. The evolved fruit fly's brain only has to sense very little to drive a few reactions in order to exhibit complex behavior. But the algorithm for sensing and reacting is not all the complicated or intelligent. If you don't think we can build something to sense a shadow (fly swatter) and jump backwards you are sadly mistaken.
It is you who is sadly mistaken.
Familiarize yourself with current AI/robotics literature, say from MIT and CM. "Lab" robots take ages to manoever through sterile 2-D lab environs. Some breakthoughs are probably not too far away. A fruit fly successfully navigates through a dynamic real world 3-D environ, with MUCH more difficult physics as you put it. And it does so in real time, without running bogus AI algorithms which are pale compared to the methods used by successful living organisms. These real world methods are doing something very different than multiply/accumulate, shift right and test.
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