Why I’m deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines

Artificial intelligence has humans beat – at least when it comes to games like chess and Go, identifying the 3D structure of proteins, generating investment strategies…the list goes on and on. Some argue that models like ChatGPT are already at the threshold of human intelligence. OpenAI head Sam Altman even threw his unborn child under the bus, claiming “my kid is never gonna grow up being smarter than AI”.

The capabilities of modern AI are certainly impressive, but I am deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines. AI (at present and in the foreseeable future) isn’t all that smart, or…