Prediction is a huge part of what intelligence does. I was questioning “prediction maximalism.”

Intelligence is also very good at pattern recognition. Did people once argue for pattern recognition maximalism?

Biological (including human) intelligence is clearly multi-modal and I strongly believe there are aspects that are barely understood if at all.

The history of CS and AI is a history of us learning how to make machines that are unbelievably good at some useful but strictly bounded subset of what intelligence can do: logic, math, pattern recognition, and now prediction.

I think we may still be far from general intelligence and I’m not even sure we can define the problem.