E. g., there’d be things like, we’d see octopi frequently executing some sequences of actions that lead to beneficial outcomes for them, and we would be fundamentally unable to understand what is happening
It’s still quite possible that we a smarter than octopi, but not at some ceiling of intelligence.
In the hypothetical where there’s no general intelligence, there’s no such thing as “smarter”, only “has a cognitive algorithm specialized for X”. If so, it’s weird that there are no animals with cognitive algorithms that we lack; it’s weird that we can model any animal’s cognition, that we basically have duplicates of all of their cognitive machinery.
On the other hand, if there is such a thing as general intelligence in the sense of “can model anything”, the explanation of why we can model any animal is straightforward.
In the hypothetical where there’s no general intelligence, there’s no such thing as “smarter”,
It sure looks like many species of animals can be usefully compared as smarter than others. The same is true of different versions of LLMs. Why shouldn’t I conclude that most of those have what you call general intelligence?
It’s still quite possible that we a smarter than octopi, but not at some ceiling of intelligence.
In the hypothetical where there’s no general intelligence, there’s no such thing as “smarter”, only “has a cognitive algorithm specialized for X”. If so, it’s weird that there are no animals with cognitive algorithms that we lack; it’s weird that we can model any animal’s cognition, that we basically have duplicates of all of their cognitive machinery.
On the other hand, if there is such a thing as general intelligence in the sense of “can model anything”, the explanation of why we can model any animal is straightforward.
It sure looks like many species of animals can be usefully compared as smarter than others. The same is true of different versions of LLMs. Why shouldn’t I conclude that most of those have what you call general intelligence?