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Machines can never obtain human like intelligence because they are foundationally not human like, that doesn't mean they lack intelligence. That's like saying dolphins lack intelligence.

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I believe you're correct, but for possibly the wrong reasons. I believe that AI will be able to simulate a lot (if not most) humanlike action in the near future. The particular problem here is they will also simulate far more non-humanlike intelligence making the alignment issue an even larger problem than it already is.

False equivalence. Dolphins have exhibited general problem-solving skills in a myriad of situations, and thus qualify as a general intelligence.

Indeed, I had started to write something similar. And pretty clearly animals like Dolphins or Chimps when they exercise their general intelligence don't do it by manipulation of language tokens.

BTW I tried to get Chat-GPT to solve a problem chimpanzees have been observed being able to solve (using an inverted bowl to stand on in order to reach some bananas):

"I'm sorry, but it is not biologically plausible for a chimpanzee to use a bowl of water to access bananas on a tree"

GPT-4 had no issues answering this.

Presumably because it's similar enough to descriptions of problems and how they were solved that are in its training data.

As has PaLM-E

I wouldn't claim ChatGPT lacks intelligence though. Clearly in terms of language comprehension and generation it does so.

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