What kind of intelligence is artificial intelligence? - Big Think

"ChatGPT is basically auto-complete on steroids." I heard that quip from a computer scientist at the University of Rochester as my fellow professors and I attended a workshop on the new reality of artificial intelligence in the classroom. Like everyone else, we were trying to grapple with the astonishing capacities of ChatGPT and its AI-driven ability to write student research papers, complete computer code, and even compose that bane of every professor's existence, the university strategic planning document. That computer scientist's remark drove home a critical point. If we really want to understand artificial intelligence's power, promise, and peril, we first need to understand the difference between intelligence as it is generally understood and the kind of intelligence we are building now with AI. That is important, because the kind we are building now is really the only kind we know how to build at all -- and it is nothing like our own intelligence.