Behavioral success isn’t proof of AI’s general intelligence

In a Nature correspondence, Quattrociocchi, Capraro, and Marcus argue that Chen et al.’s claim that success in behavioural tests (including Turing-test variants) demonstrates artificial general intelligence is problematic. They present three grounds for skepticism, stressing that such performance reflects statistical pattern matching or task-specific competence rather than true general intelligence or understanding, and warn against equating behavioural mimicry with AGI.