[UltraSane]

How can you distinguish intelligence form a sufficiently accurate imitation of intelligence?

[slopinthebag]

By "sufficiently accurate" do you mean identical? Because if so, it's not an imitation of intelligence at all, and the question is thus nonsensical.

[UltraSane]

"it's not an imitation of intelligence at all"

But that is the key insight, how can you tell when an imitation of intelligence becomes the real thing?

[qsera]

When it stops hallucinating without explicit checks for that!

[empath75]

Making mistakes does not make people unintelligent.

[qsera]

People don't hallucinate. That is they can pretty reliably assess if they know or don't know something.

[empath75]

Your comment is a perfect example of a human hallucinating something and not knowing they are wrong about it. People are confidently wrong about things _all the time_.

[UltraSane]

Some people can reliably assess what the know, others cannot