Actual Intelligence
Steve Wozniak’s re-reading of the initials. His distinction is between actual intelligence and its symptoms, and the symptoms are what a chat produces perfectly: it talks, it sounds sharp, it holds an argument, while underneath it predicts the next word from statistics. Keeping the acronym and swapping the claim turns out to be the cheapest way of saying what the technology is not.
Search is knowledge synthesis now.
…for AI, 2023. D. Kaznowski, E-E-A-T, czyli jak AI ocenia wiarygodność źródeł?, Actual Intelligence Blog, 2026
AI doesn’t think. AI computes.
…intelligence similar to ours. Steve Wozniak drew the line that matters here: there's Actual Intelligence,1 and there are its symptoms. An AI chat produces the symptoms flawlessly. It talks, it sounds sharp, it holds an argument. Underneath, it's guessing every next word from…