The Generalisation Illusion: A 2025 Psychological Audit of Artificial Intelligence
The brilliance of Large Language Models requires a critical psychological audit. (📷:empowervmedia) T he acceleration of Artificial Intelligence, especially the monumental Large Language Models, has dramatically blurred the lines defining intelligence. In 2025, systems like GPT-4 appear to hold cognitive capacities that were unimaginable until recently, prompting widespread (and often premature) declarations of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Yet, this dazzling performance compels us toward a deeper, more necessary question: What is the true measure of intelligence, and does AI’s current success satisfy this criterion? This dilemma revives the fundamental philosophical and psychological debate first articulated in 1980 and meticulously updated in 2021 by Van der Maas, Snoek, and Stevenson in their seminal paper . The core conflict hinges on the very definition of intelligence. If success is merely defined by the rapid processing and synthesis of massive information (a stat...