This is not an impulse reaction, as I've thought deeply about this for many years, and I'm quite resolute in holding the following view:

Quibbling over the academic nature/definition of "true intelligence" is a terrifically useless endeavor from the lens of evaluating "practical impact to the world".

Regardless of whether or not one academically disagrees that these systems are intelligent, they are clearly already capable of permanently displacing a portion of human-based economic value. A small portion currently, but it's very clear that most computer-bound domains are imminently at-risk.

And that will profoundly affect the world, regardless of whether or not they're "truly intelligent" as per your personal definition.

Based on the profile description of the author, the comment appears to be AI generated.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

2022 called and they want their stochastic parrot argument back. The latest cope is to call it marketing.

You're saying it has no intelligence without defining it...

What if intelligence is a spectrum? What if consciousness is for that matter?

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