Computers -- even hand-held calculators from decades ago -- are much faster at MATH than humans are. So are they "intelligent?"
Of course not. Human intelligence is organic and hugely multifaceted; it is based in an embodied organic being who moves through the world and lives socially among other humans, animals, plants, and other features of the natural world. This is why we have common sense and why we understand many things that computer do not. Also, we are genetically related to every other life-form on Earth, which is why we have empathy and a sense of connection to other life. Computers, not so much.
So computers are more CAPABLE and FASTER at certain tasks, and the sheer computing power and staggeringly large data available to them gives them the ability to mimic human responses more and more -- and will at some point, if not already, allow them to mimic us so well that we'll be unable to tell the difference in many situations.
Their intelligence will remain of a different quality from ours for a long time, however. And don't ever start believing they have any actual empathy for us.
Is an automobile "fast?"
Compared to a human, yes, of course.
Computers -- even hand-held calculators from decades ago -- are much faster at MATH than humans are. So are they "intelligent?"
Of course not. Human intelligence is organic and hugely multifaceted; it is based in an embodied organic being who moves through the world and lives socially among other humans, animals, plants, and other features of the natural world. This is why we have common sense and why we understand many things that computer do not. Also, we are genetically related to every other life-form on Earth, which is why we have empathy and a sense of connection to other life. Computers, not so much.
So computers are more CAPABLE and FASTER at certain tasks, and the sheer computing power and staggeringly large data available to them gives them the ability to mimic human responses more and more -- and will at some point, if not already, allow them to mimic us so well that we'll be unable to tell the difference in many situations.
Their intelligence will remain of a different quality from ours for a long time, however. And don't ever start believing they have any actual empathy for us.