>not quite the same thing as 'true' AI

I've really started changing my mind on this. "There is no AI, only I" is the position that I've really come to adopt.

Part of it is from Michael Levin's quote "Humans only can really see intelligence at human scales an immediately discount anything that doesn't exactly match their experience". The other part is most peoples immediate assumption that for something to be intelligent it has to be alive. Lastly is there may be platonic intelligence, that some kinds of intelligence may arise from the very structure of our universe when accessed.

We have really entered an age where thinking that human intelligence = intelligence is an anti-pattern that tells you less about the world and blinds you to what is actually occurring.

Biological intelligence, human intelligence, electronic intelligence, algorithmic intelligence are all subsets of intelligence set theory and even where humans like to call themselves a general intelligence it's distinctly likely that we're less generalized than we expect.