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

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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

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