If there is no Artificial Intelligence in an Artificial Neural Network... what's the basis for claiming Natural Intelligence in a Natural Neural Network?
There is artificial, there is no intelligence, there is a whole lot of artificial neural networks without any intelligence.
As in calling them ai in the sense that these are thinking machines comparable to some animal (human for example) is misleading.
When two systems based on neural networks act in the same way, how do you tell which one is "artificial, no intelligence" and which is "natural, intelligent"?
Misleading, is thinking that "intelligence = biological = natural". There is no inherent causal link between those concepts.
The reality is that a certain portion of people will never believe that an AI can be self aware no matter how advanced they get. There are a lot of interesting philosophical questiona here, and the hard skeptics are punting just as much as the true believers in this case.
It's honestly kind of sad to see how much reactionary anti-tech sentiment there is in this tech enthusiast community.
Really determining if a computer is self-aware would be very hard because we are good at making programs that mimic self-awareness. Additionally, humans are kinda hardwired to anthropomorphize things that talk.
But we do know for absolute sure that OpenAI's expensive madlibs program is not self-aware and is not even on the road to self-awareness, and anyone who thinks otherwise has lost the plot.