It means that either the test is flawed, the results are bogus or the report is a lie.
Intelligence is a measure of reasoning ability.
Current AIs have been designed to produce content that (optimally) mimics the products of reason, but they do not in fact reason at all, so they cannot possess measurable intelligence.
Much more to the point, current AIs have been designed to make enormous piles of money for corporations and venture capitalists, and I would pretty much guarantee that that has more to do with this story than anything else.
One extremely minor correction - you said they’re designed to make enormous piles of money and yet none of these(1) are cash flow positive or have any clear path to profitability. The only way a company makes money off this (outside an acquisition to let founders exit with bags of cash) is if one of these companies is allowed to create a monopoly leading to a corporate autocracy. General language models are absolutely shit in terms of efficiency compared to literally any other computing tool - they just look shiny.
- Please note - lots of pre chatgpt neural networks are happily chugging away doing good and important works… my statement excludes everything pre-ML bubble and a fair few legitimately interesting ML applications developed afterwards which you’ll never fucking hear about.
Edited to add: Just as a note it’s always possible that this AI gold rush actually does lead to an AGI but, lucky for me, if that happens the greedy as fuck MBAs will absolutely end civilization before any of you could type up “told you so” so I’m willing to take this bet.
I have yet to see an AI ask any question that goes beyond the superficial. They show zero amount of curiosity. I would say that’s a giant mark against the idea that they have any sort of real intelligence.
It means some people fudged a test.
That the ai industry has finally produced a text-based frontend UI for general search, aka a ‘search bar’ but you’d still have to vet the results yourself?
Think of the average human intelligence, then realize half of them are below that.
People are saying “there is no way an AI is as smart as a human”. There are a few humans i know that being as smart as them wouldn’t be much of a challenge.
Think of the average human intelligence, then realize that more than half of those who voted in 2024, voted for trump.
