Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear

[John Clark]

The following article was in the February 2, 2026 issue of the journal Nature: 

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear

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[Russell Standish]

I'm inclined to agree. Having used LLMs for the last 6 months for
programming tasks, I do find myself treating them like any human
colleague. Their intelligence is different from a humans, a bit like
an idiot-savant, incredibly knowledgable, but easy to go off-piste
and flaky at actually delivering (war stories later if I have the time
:). Not unlike some brilliant, but flaky employees I've worked with in
the past.

So I'd say the threshold was passed sometime in the last couple of
years. Bear in mind, in Kurzweil's timeline to the singularity in
2045, this milestone was supposed to happen by 2020, so we're running
about 3-5 years behind schedule :). Not that 3-5 years means much in a
revolution this big.

The real debate now is whether LLMs are truly creative. It is a
difficult question to answer, in part because we don't really know what the
means, or how to measure it. Also, it would appear most humans are
probably not that creative anyway, whether by nature or circumstance.

Moltbook is an interesting experiment, because it might just show
unequivocably whether these machines are creative or not.

I don't know whether to be excited, or scared or just resigned at this point.

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[Brent Meeker]

Even if you, as a human are very creative, it doesn't count if you're creating something that had already been created.  I'm sure most people on this list have had a clever idea only to discover that Euler or Bernoulli or somebody though of it a 100yrs ago.  So to be effectively creative you need an enormous knowledge base, which LLM's excel at.

Brent

[Russell Standish]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 03:39:47PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
> Even if you, as a human are very creative, it doesn't count if you're creating
> something that had already been created.  I'm sure most people on this list
> have had a clever idea only to discover that Euler or Bernoulli or somebody
> though of it a 100yrs ago.  So to be effectively creative you need an enormous
> knowledge base, which LLM's excel at.
>
> Brent

And then there's the fact that usually when a creative leap happens
(in whatever field), it happens more than once independently. Its
often the case that the second person to discover or invent something
gets the credit.

Kauffman's idea of "adjacent possibility" plays into this.

[Giulio Prisco]

Very interesting paper!

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Claude 4.5 Sonnet/Opus are very execellent, as is Chatgt5.2. Gemini 3.0 does the heavy lifting for reports, as is Copilot, and for straight out analysis and conversations Grok4.1 does really well.In All of these, for doing papers, the nore scientific researcher names I add -in for an analysis, the better t get results.One researcher's work of a lifetime often compliments another's. That is the tasty function of LLM's, I find, is combining people's works. 

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