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Benjamin Riley posted this article a couple months ago and referenced it in a discussion today on the nature of intelligence. The focus here is on higher order skills and the role they play in intelligence (indeed, what we describe as 'intellegence' often referes to these skills directly). The main argument here is that while large language models (LLM) may surpass humans in specific domains, they cannot transfer that learning into other domains. In fact, there is a domain in AI called transfer learning, which I don't address in my reply to Riley, but I could.

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