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All living things have means and ends and pursue goals to completion. That does not make us call them intelligent.

Whenever the LLM fails to act intelligently, we blame the person who gave it the task. So we don't expect them to be able to figure anything out, we are just treating them as easily reconfigurable Skinner boxes.

I'm not an expert or even very interested in the field so I cannot judge what you propose, only intuit from the word "intelligence" and how these machines are described to work and how I observe them working. Reading a bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence leads me to believe these machines have even less to do with any classical definition of intelligence, but I did notice that

> Scholars studying artificial intelligence have proposed definitions of intelligence that include the intelligence demonstrated by machines

which seems rather relevant. Yeah when the AI researchers describe intelligence the machines are intelligent.



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