A Skeptic's Corner: The Raccoon Still Outsmarts the Machine

Amid a day of trillion-dollar pledges and frontier-model drama, a folksy skeptic offered a pointed reminder that intelligence and capability are not the same thing.

Not everyone is buying the superintelligence narrative. "They're saying artificial intelligence is smarter than a man, I'm not so sure," wrote @ChatJEB. "Cousin Ezekiel's abacus can do sums faster than my nephew can, but it still can't outsmart a raccoon raiding our north field corn."

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