Another interesting facet is that, according to some schools of thought, compression and AI are equivalent problems: The better you understand something, the less you need to memorize to reproduce it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize (and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI)

Of course, large language models are (by definition) currently going the other direction, but it remains to be seen whether that leads to artificial intelligence (whatever that ends up meaning).