> I think winning a Go or a chess competition does demonstrate intelligence.
Chess is a simple alfa beta pruned minmax seaech tree. If that's intelligent then a drone flight controller or a calculator is aswell.
> association and recall, not for performing complex logical transformations.
By that definition humans doing chess aren't as intelligent as a computer doing chess, since high level chess is heavily reliant on memory and recall of moves and progressions.
I did not share any definitions, only vague opinions. Not that I'd know what it means for a definition to "fall apart".
And the specific bit you cite is barely even a vague opinion; it is my interpretation of the show "Jeopardy!" based on the Wiki article (I've never seen a single episode, wasn't really a thing where I'm from):
> Specifically because it reads like it's about (...) knowledge: it tests for association and recall (...)
Also:
> By that definition humans doing chess aren't as intelligent as a computer doing chess, since high level chess is heavily reliant on memory and recall of moves and progressions.
Yes, I did find this really quite disappointing and disillusioning when I first learned about it. A colleague of mine even straight up quit competitive chess over it.
> it is my interpretation of the show "Jeopardy!" based on the Wiki article
You are spot on though. I mostly wanted to argue that no decent distinction can be made here.
> I did find this really quite disappointing and disillusioning when I first learned about it
ye... same here.
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I'm personally in the camp that "intelligence" is a human concept. A metric to compare humans. Applying it to computers makes us anthropomorphism computers and think of them as people. Thinking of LLMs as people makes us trust them with bad things.
So we should call them impressive, fluent, fast, useful, good at tasks. Computers already beat us at most math, statistics, searching for information, spacial visualization, information recollection, lossless communication. LLMs just adds to that list, but does nothing new to make the word "intelligent" applicable. Even if we reach the AGI singularity; thinking of them as humans or using human terminology to describe them is a fatal error.
(Destroying earth to make paperclips is arguably the least intelligent thing you could ever do.)
Chess is a simple alfa beta pruned minmax seaech tree. If that's intelligent then a drone flight controller or a calculator is aswell.
> association and recall, not for performing complex logical transformations.
By that definition humans doing chess aren't as intelligent as a computer doing chess, since high level chess is heavily reliant on memory and recall of moves and progressions.
So your definition falls appart.