alt Hacker NewsI don't think intelligence needs to take the shape of human-like intelligence, nor human-like data efficiency.
I'd argue they are intelligent entities, superhuman in some ways due to being run on silicon but extremely data inefficient with nonobvious failure modes.
>I don't think intelligence needs to take the shape of human-like intelligence
But then the word doesn't mean anything. Intelligence is almost by definition what we're like.
If you think LLMs are intelligent, you have to concede that databases are also intelligent. And if you can't then you need to ponder deeply about what quality of an LLM's response to your query makes it (seem) more "intelligent" than a database's response to your SQL query, beyond the trivial thing that it's in natural language.