Peter Yang Questions Whether AI Capability Equals Intelligence

@petergyang posted on X that he likes @DeryaTR_’s definitions of AGI and ASI but wonders if raw capability alone makes a system intelligent. The latest models are probably already better than him at problem-solving and learning, he wrote, yet they wait for instructions and rarely refuse tasks unless trained to do so. He contrasted this with his four-year-old, who knows far less but asserts independence by saying no all day. Yang proposed three distinct traits: intelligence as reasoning and learning ability, agency as deciding actions without prompts, and alignment as continued service to human goals. He asked whether models that surpass humans in intelligence will stay aligned indefinitely. The post received three likes and three replies.