[pixl97]

>haven't got a grip on what intelligence actually is

Because intelligence isn't a thing, it's a bunch of different things that some intelligent things have more or less (or none of).

This is why measures of intelligence always fail because we try to binary it which doesn't work. Intelligence is spikey. Intelligence scales from very small and dumb to very smart. But even the things that are very smart on a lot of things still do very dumb things. We also measure human intelligence as a function of all humans and LLM intelligence on a particular model.

So yea, this is why nothing seems to make sense.