The takeaway appears to be: > Iterative prompting, like Socratic questioning, may never produce true intelligence in the systems it engages with, but it reveal

The takeaway appears to be: > Iterative prompting, like Socratic questioning, may never produce true intelligence in the systems it engages with, but it reveals the collaborative nature of intelligence itself—an emergent property shaped by context, guidance, and the interplay of minds, human or otherwise. Through this lens, the promise of AI shifts from creating autonomous intelligences to augmenting human inquiry. This reads (like the rest of the post) as if the author is curiously unaware that, in fact, lots of research has been published on what LLMs can do "zero-shot" or without iterative prompting, vs what takes iterative prompting, and that the number of things that they can do without anything at all Socratic in shape is both non-zero and increasing predictably with scale. IMHO what LLMs have most obviously revealed about "true intelligence" is just how attached many people are to the idea that it's a special possession of humans and the tenuous intellectual lengths to which they will go to hold on to that idea.