I would say "moving the goalposts" is an understatement. Requiring that a system's state must not be describable with a string of fixed length is an absurd def

I would say "moving the goalposts" is an understatement. Requiring that a system's state must not be describable with a string of fixed length is an absurd definition of intelligence. By that definition, anything composed of a finite number of atoms can never be intelligent. I think the idea that we have to give a precise definition of general intelligence is mistaken. We start from the premise that humans are generally intelligent, and then we build systems that are able to compete with humans across multiple domains. LLMs outperform humans on many language-based tasks, so I would say they are already generally intelligent. Of course, they do poorly on a lot of tasks as well, so there is a lot of room for improvement.