I'm inclined to agree. Having used LLMs for the last 6 months for programming tasks, I do find myself treating them like any human colleague. Their intelligence is different from a humans, a bit like an idiot-savant, incredibly knowledgable, but easy to go off-piste and flaky at actually delivering (war stories later if I have the time :). Not unlike some brilliant, but flaky employees I've worked with in the past.
So I'd say the threshold was passed sometime in the last couple of years. Bear in mind, in Kurzweil's timeline to the singularity in 2045, this milestone was supposed to happen by 2020, so we're running about 3-5 years behind schedule :). Not that 3-5 years means much in a revolution this big. The real debate now is whether LLMs are truly creative. It is a difficult question to answer, in part because we don't really know what the means, or how to measure it. Also, it would appear most humans are probably not that creative anyway, whether by nature or circumstance. Moltbook is an interesting experiment, because it might just show unequivocably whether these machines are creative or not. I don't know whether to be excited, or scared or just resigned at this point. On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 04:04:13PM -0500, John Clark wrote: > The following article was in the February 2, 2026 issue of the journal > Nature: > > Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > vbx > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email > to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list > /CAJPayv2_RPejC%3DR127KFK6PeLaMVexPZT0R7O2fRsxRxwf-Ovw%40mail.gmail.com. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/aYEjrT_doAYSjKQI%40zen.
