In
an
article at Nature, Eddy
Keming Chen, Mikhail Belkin, Leon Bergen, and David Danks ask “Does AI already
have human-level intelligence?” and claim that “the evidence is clear” that the
answer is Yes. (Though the article is
partially pay-walled, a read-only PDF is available
here.) But as is typical with bold claims about AI,
their arguments are underwhelming, riddled with begged questions and other
fallacies.
Defining “intelligence”
Naturally, before
we can establish that AI has genuine intelligence, we need to make clear what it would be for it to have
intelligence, and how we could go about determining
that it has it. The first is a
metaphysical question, the second an epistemological question. Our authors make no serious attempt to answer
either one.