This is such a strawman. Do you have to really stoop to this level? There are a billion useless things people pay for, is that a measure of the intelligence behind it? People routinely pay $1000 dollars for a dog, does that mean a dog is 50x more intelligent than ChatGPT? All I'm saying is that we should be a bit more humble about intelligence when we understand so little about it.
Just because LLMs are useful, it doesn't mean they exhibit more intelligence than a mouse. A mouse probably also doesn't reason about anything, but it is an agent capable of independent behavior, something that is still very far removed from current AI models.
>All I'm saying is that we should be a bit more humble about intelligence when we understand so little about it.
OK, as long as we're are being humble, how about we refrain from confidently proclaiming that there is a mouse level and a dog level that AI hasn't reached yet and that researchers will have to spend a long time getting past, so there's plenty of time before we have to worry about the possibility of AI's becoming dangerous or transformative to society?
Just because LLMs are useful, it doesn't mean they exhibit more intelligence than a mouse. A mouse probably also doesn't reason about anything, but it is an agent capable of independent behavior, something that is still very far removed from current AI models.