We have perfectly fine definitions for intelligence amongst creatures that are not closely related to humans, and it mostly centres around problem solving, even

We have perfectly fine definitions for intelligence amongst creatures that are not closely related to humans, and it mostly centres around problem solving, even when introduced to problems that the creature and its ancestors had never grappled with. In these situations does the creature try the eager solution despite it obviously not working near the end? For example, does it take the close bridge that gets it 99% of the way across the river or does it not even bother and travel to the farther one that actually gets it across. If it uses small sticks in nature will it employ artificially introduced tools to solve artificially introduced problems? Etc. The key here is to apply the test without breeding for it first. That is how you tell the individual is intelligent rather than the breeding mechanism. For example, I don't think the individuals are at all intelligent in OpenAI's[0] Hide and Seek. It's basically burned in instincts since the introduction of a button that would, say, swap positions with the farthest enemy agent wouldn't be utilized for hundreds of rounds of play. The learning is the brain and replication together. Reminds me of a story about aliens on LessWrong[1] about baby eating aliens. [0] https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/ https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/ [1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n5TqCuizyJDfAPjkr/the-baby-eating-aliens-1-8 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n5TqCuizyJDfAPjkr/the-baby-e...