Intelligence is whatever machines cannot (yet) do | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
I had dinner a few nights ago with Andrew’s former postdoc Aleks Jakulin, who left the green fields of academia for entrepreneurship ages ago. Aleks was telling me he was impressed by the new LLMs, but then asserted that they’ re clearly not intelligent. This reminded me of the old saw in AI that “AI is whatever a machine can’ t do.” In the end, the definition of “intelligent” is a matter of semantics. Semantics is defined by conventional usage, not by fiat (the exception seems to be an astronomical
