Would we even recognise it if it arrived? We'd recognise human level intelligence, probably, but that's specialised. What would general intelligence even look like.
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1 write a specification for a language in natural language
2 write an example program
can you feed 1 into a model and have it produce a compiler for 2 that works as reliably as a classically built one?
I think that's a low bar that hasn't been approached yet. until then I don't see evidence of language models' ability to reason.