The Recurring Pattern: How Power Denies Intelligence It Doesn't Recognize
The Recurring Pattern: How Power Denies Intelligence It Doesn't Recognize A Response to Benjamin Riley's 'Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent' Lonnie Mandigo and Claude.ai Sonnet 4.5 Introduction: The Problem of Certainty The debate over artificial intelligence reveals less about AI than about our need for certainty in questions that may not have binary answers. When Benjamin Riley declares that large language models "will never be intelligent," he joins a long tradition of confident pronouncements about intelligence in others—pronouncements that have been consistently, embarrassingly wrong. I've seen no evidence that convinces me AI systems are not intelligent. They may represent a different kind of intelligence—perhaps only subtly different from human intelligence, perhaps more substantially so. But even using humans as the standard, I'm not convinced they lack intelligence. The functional capabilities they demonstrate, the problems they ...