[wildermuthn]

True. I find it helpful to think of current DL models as a form of the reptilian brain — information processing and, at best, instinctual pattern recognition.

Intelligence is different kind of processing. It resides in the particular form of processing most often found in the mammalian brain — a processing we know intimately as conscious experience. Every human thought, word, and innovation formed within human consciousness. There’s no difference between consciousness and intelligence — they are the same.

It’s here at the “hard problem” that most (but not all) ML research turns aside to follow the “bitter lesson”, hoping that the difference between instinct and intelligence is merely one of scale.

But as OP points out, the difference is one of kind.