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God damn the down votes. I agree with your overall thesis I don’t personally know what intelligence means. However it’s just a tool even if it is AI or whatever you want to label it. It’s extremely cool and powerful too. It scares the shit out of me as well. However I think we are also taking the hype to 11/10 when it should be much lower out of 10 than that…

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It reminds of me the rhetorical question: if we found intelligent alien life out there in the universe, would we even be able to recognize it as such?

The same question may apply here: if artificial intelligence emerges, would we be able to realize that it is intelligent?

I have no idea. Probably not. The philosophy is a deep rabbit hole. A fun one to ponder, and I like having that discussion. Maybe the more cynical pragmatic old man swe that I am sees a super powerful calculator kind of. It’s very very cool, and obviously I can’t hold a conversation with a calculator but my analogy is more to say my calculator can do really complex integrals and even show its steps kind of! Especially for my handy TI-89. It was my best friend for all of engineering undergrad. I see chatgpt as a steroid version of that for all of Language. Code is another language, writing is a language, painting in some ways is a language.

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