Why Everyone Misunderstands AI's "Intelligence"
Why Everyone - Including World Leaders - Completely Misunderstands AI's "Intelligence"
A few months ago I was watching AI write production code and felt genuinely unsettled. Not in a vague, science-fiction way - but in the specific, concrete way you feel when something doesn't add up. The output was too good. Too fast. Too confident. It felt like watching someone solve in ten seconds a puzzle that should take an hour.
So I started picking at it. Asking questions. Trying to understand the actual mechanism behind what I was seeing. And what I found completely reframed the picture - not in a way that makes AI less impressive, but in a way that makes the current public hysteria about AI "superintelligence" look a little embarrassing.
I want to share that reframing here. Because the misunderstanding isn't just academic. Right now, heads of state and corporate executives are making decisions based...
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