Unfounded cope. And I know this will get me downvoted, as these arguments seem to be popular among the intellectuals on this glorious page.
The machanism of intelligence is not understood. There isn't even a rigorous definition of what intelligence is. "All it does is combine parts it has seen in its training set to give an answer", well then the magic lies in how it knows what parts to combine, if one wants to go with this argument. Also conveniently, the fact that we have millions of years of evolution behind us, plus exabytes of training data over the years in form of different stimuli since birth gets shoved under the rug. I don't want to say that the conclusion is necessarily wrong, but the argument is always bad. I know it is hard to come to terms with the thought that intelligence may be more fundamental in nature and not exclusively a capability of carbon based life forms.
Intelligence feels like a hard scientific concept, but scratch the surface and you find a circular definition: we measure it with tools we designed for the purpose, then declare it real because the tools say so. That’s affirming the consequent.
If intelligence were an objective property of the universe, we’d define it like mass or charge—quantifiable, invariant, fundamental. Instead, it shifts to match whatever we decide to measure. The instruments don’t quantify intelligence; they create it.
The machanism of intelligence is not understood. There isn't even a rigorous definition of what intelligence is. "All it does is combine parts it has seen in its training set to give an answer", well then the magic lies in how it knows what parts to combine, if one wants to go with this argument. Also conveniently, the fact that we have millions of years of evolution behind us, plus exabytes of training data over the years in form of different stimuli since birth gets shoved under the rug. I don't want to say that the conclusion is necessarily wrong, but the argument is always bad. I know it is hard to come to terms with the thought that intelligence may be more fundamental in nature and not exclusively a capability of carbon based life forms.