> consciousness/intelligence intelligence (noun) (1) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations, the skilled use of reason (

> consciousness/intelligence intelligence (noun) (1) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations, the skilled use of reason (2) the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests) (3) mental acuteness, shrewdness consciousness (noun) (1) the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself (2) the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, and thought (3) the totality of conscious states of an individual These two things are very different and entirely separate concepts. Thinking about them as the same thing has caused immeasurable amounts of confusion when trying to classify LLMs recently. Animals can be intelligent, plants can be too, even single celled organisms, or a single if statement as long as it encodes a decision based on reasoning. It has nothing to do with consciousness which is so loosely defined that it can't even be measured. And it's also the term that should've been used in the title, of couse any hominid or living being for that matter obviously makes intelligent decisions constantly to get food and evade predators. I suppose it is a result of thinking in an anthropocentric way as you mention because humans typically make intelligent decisions using consciousness, but it's far from a universal requirement. People always assume that AI stands for 'artificial consciousness' and it drives me up the wall.