To say a human-level intelligence is far off is like saying we are far off from being as intelligent as whatever may have created us. The reason I disagree with

To say a human-level intelligence is far off is like saying we are far off from being as intelligent as whatever may have created us. The reason I disagree with LeCun's comment is even though I agree language models are not intelligent, an intelligence adapted to the internet as its own environment seems imminent. It just won't be adapted to ours. We occupy and discover space, where an AI will occupy and discover compute. Will it be "conscious?" Not in our way, and we will likely be just as indifferent to AI consciousness and the meaning it finds for itself as nature and the universe is to ours. Thinking about AI as an objective concrete thing or property is probably less illuminating than looking at it through how a tech can profoundly alter our own ontology. We exist where life is abundant, whereas the internet is a substrate where life is non-existent, but just about to become primordial and sparse. Maybe it will give us some insight into our own situation.