So is all human knowledge. They're all things we "made up" to describe the world around us. That's a really cheap way to reduce something. There's a mountain of psychological literature that intends to describe and measure intelligence. Saying it doesn't mean much of anything is a bit of a postmodern hot take.

> If an LLM can compose a poem found in no existing book, paint an attractive picture that no one has ever seen, or write a program that has never run before, it's intelligent enough to be called "intelligent."

Painting pictures and composing poems aren't good ways to measure general intelligence. That's creativity. They're correlated but not the same.

There are specific tests for measuring general intelligence, and there's absolutely no way current gen LLM would score highly on them because they don't even accept visual input. Yes I've seen that they can score highly on verbal-only tests. That's obvious anyway because they have seen, written down, and have access to the answers during the test.

Even if they did accept visual input they would only be able to solve problems for which they've previously been given the answers (trained on the dataset). Even then I'd have my doubts given how terribly wrong ChatGPT4 is when I ask it to produce a very simple Kubernetes manifest which has a strictly defined spec.