[kilgnad]

We aren't even clear about what the difference is between AI and intelligence. These are just loaded words with no clear definition.

Given that we don't even fully understand how the human brain works we can't even specify how close or how different these things are to the way we think.

Articles like this aren't really open minded. How can you claim AI is a mirror when you don't even fully understand the thing that it is reflecting?

[morpheos137]

Intelligence exists. AI doesn't.

Why would one assume that intelligence existing on a different substrate would be artificial?

So far we have no example of intelligence that is not tied to a living organism.

If a computer can simulate a living organism to a sufficient degree of detail the simulation may be intelligent and alive.

Thus life is at least a sufficient condition for intelligence. It may be a necessary one as well.

How GPT is different from life is that it lacks biological goals. It also lacks the abstract modeling ability that higher organisms have.

In other words GPT fails because it relies on combinatorics without real modeling of the world (aka understanding).

[mcguire]

Because it's reflecting us. When a human asks it a question, the response is a statistical summary of what other humans have written.

[kilgnad]

But how do you know? You don't fully understand the mirror. And you don't fully understand yourself.

You can't know if you're a mirror yourself.