To what extent is it true that “All intelligence, human or artificial, must extract structure from correlational data”?

Someone pointed me to this article, “Does AI already have human-level intelligence?” You can click through to read the whole thing; spoiler alert: their answer is Yes. I don’t have much to say about the main argument of the article–it’s a topic we’ve gone over all too much in past comment threads–also, as non-user of chatbots, I’m really the worst person to ask for an opinion on the topic. Indeed, the other day I was contacted by a reporter for a story about “vibe analytics” where people use chatbots to write code to perform data analysis. I shared my thoughts for a few minutes but then referred the reporter to Bob and Jessica, as they both have thought a lot more about this than I have. I continue to (a) think that it can make sense to consider chatbots and ping-pong playing robots as having human-level intelligence, and (b) agree with Gary Smith that it remains a big problem when people think chatbots have a level of understanding that they don’t actually have. But, again, my…