And birds. And fish. And…
We seem to have a very very strong bias towards assuming less/no intelligence in anything that isn’t an adult human.
We seem to have a very very strong bias towards assuming less/no intelligence in anything that isn’t an adult human.
And people ascribe intelligence to Eliza, a 200-line Basic program.
OTOH there are plenty of animal behaviors that can only be explained by intelligence: seeing-eye dogs perform a task which is economically useful for humans yet far beyond the ability of AI (even if the robotics mech eng issues are resolved). But it also doesn't really make sense that one of my cats is "instinctually" able to understanding my words while the other cat is "instinctually" able to outsmart me when we play with toys. The more sensible explanation is cats are intelligent and intellectually diverse.