@Snidely_Whiplash @petra @WilhelmIII >Can you even define what intelligence is? The AI industry gave that pursuit up in the 1980s.
they more or less went with "pattern recognition and memory"
which isn't so bad as far as it goes, and works pretty well for what they call AI these days
it maps well enough to what we think of and measure as human intelligence, which is why an AI engine that can produce a JPEG of Hitler riding a dinosaur gets billions in funding
it's intelligent enough that it can nearly replace, i dunno, 20-30% of normies
who, let's be honest, aren't all that intelligent; they're just pattern recognition engines with memory
it's a leap from there to the even more nebulously defined "genius", which is what would be required for a jump from chemical/atomic reaction to FTL travel