[Terr_]

> > just an elaborate mating ritual.

You might find the book Blindsight interesting, since... Well, to avoid spoilers, I'll just say the story doesn't put our concept of intelligence on the usual top-of-creation pedestal.

[jiggawatts]

Read it twice already!

Something I noted -- trying to avoid spoilers here -- is that Rorschach is awfully similar to LLMs, but the book pre-dates ChatGPT by several years, which I feel says everything you need to know about how well the author foresaw the future.

[aldonius]

Mmm, yes, some real parallels between Blindsight's conception of consciousness and LLM chain-of-thought reasoning.