An insect is an example of intelligence because it is an intelligent being.
An AI is not an example of intelligence because it is not an intelligent being.
And also because it requires another intelligent being to… use… it…? Huh? What do the method by which an AI receives its stimuli and the effects of its responses matter? Such details are external set dressing.
You could just as well slice out an insect’s brain, hook it up to some electrodes, and query it the same way you would ChatGPT. Alternatively, a sufficiently trained AI contained in some hypothetical form factor that could be grafted to the nervous system of an insect would pilot that insect body just as well. No AI we have now is so advanced, but that’s a scale issue, not a principle issue.
The latter is just a glorified calculator compared to a living intelligent being.
I don’t understand how this runs counter to my argument. The living being is itself a glorified calculator. What is the difference, other than scale?
Your assertions are tautological.
And also because it requires another intelligent being to… use… it…? Huh? What do the method by which an AI receives its stimuli and the effects of its responses matter? Such details are external set dressing.
You could just as well slice out an insect’s brain, hook it up to some electrodes, and query it the same way you would ChatGPT. Alternatively, a sufficiently trained AI contained in some hypothetical form factor that could be grafted to the nervous system of an insect would pilot that insect body just as well. No AI we have now is so advanced, but that’s a scale issue, not a principle issue.
I don’t understand how this runs counter to my argument. The living being is itself a glorified calculator. What is the difference, other than scale?