current AIs are primitive and nowhere near human intellects
Keep in mind humans have highly varied intellects too, especially when it comes to specialized knowledge. No claude isn’t anywhere close to as intelligent as a professional coder, but compared to the layperson?
What I mean by “nowhere near human intellects” is that e.g. Claude is exclusively good at coding. Ask Claude to paint, or walk (using a robot body), or understand body language, and you’ll see how limited and “idiot savant” Claude is.
Also, Claude understands patterns within the code, not the actual code itself. I suppose the same is true for non-coders as well, though.
But as I stated before, Claude does use a neural network. With enough time, effort and incentives, an AI like Claude could become general purpose. And at that point, we’d be approaching true sentience and sapience.
Keep in mind humans have highly varied intellects too, especially when it comes to specialized knowledge. No claude isn’t anywhere close to as intelligent as a professional coder, but compared to the layperson?
What I mean by “nowhere near human intellects” is that e.g. Claude is exclusively good at coding. Ask Claude to paint, or walk (using a robot body), or understand body language, and you’ll see how limited and “idiot savant” Claude is.
Also, Claude understands patterns within the code, not the actual code itself. I suppose the same is true for non-coders as well, though.
But as I stated before, Claude does use a neural network. With enough time, effort and incentives, an AI like Claude could become general purpose. And at that point, we’d be approaching true sentience and sapience.
I guess what I’m saying is you vastly overestimate the average human’s intelligence. Most people can’t paint worth shit for example, myself included.