Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence - Part 1

Is this frog intelligent? According to the current use of the word AI you would think so. What about the pocket calculator?

It has always confused me that the ability to calculate the square root of a six-figure number should not be considered intelligent, while the ability to recognize a fly (or a face) is considered an important feature of AI. After all, calculation is, or was, a uniquely human ability, whereas the ability to recognize shapes and patterns is widely found in the animal world. Presumably the reason is that image recognition requires a huge number of matrix multiplications, something that pocket calculators and computers until recently were not able to perform? So the frog's brain must have a different trick...

Disclosure: This article was prepared with the help of generative AI. All factual errors and omission remain my own responsibility.