| ... I don’t believe that intelligence is a computation.
But your pocket calculator can compute sinusoids, take square roots, some of them can solve polynomial equations and do calculus. Those have always been viewed as 'intelligent' operations, more or less.
Now the so-called "GPT" engines have shown that they can generate "intelligent" looking output by correlation query inputs with jillions of bits of previously generated human documents, by using an entirely deterministic algorithm known as "self-attention". It merely selects the most salient bits of info which correlate best with the query and the database info, and interpolates/extrapolates it to some desired output format.
The important aspect of this is: GPT is not "aware" of reality or itself (even though it can say it is, along with a lot of other misinformation).It is just a "computation" as you put it. GPT shows zero "self-organizing" or "reproductive" or "willfullness", which are the hallmarks traits of human intelligence.
So, for the time being, no big worries. You can just pull the plug on a GPT robot and it stops working.
But I do believe that, in the future, humans will build life-like mechanisms to duplicate Life in every aspect, especially in noticing and reacting to the reality streaming around all us in this world. But it will require further research in life principles to learn how DNA perpetuates willful, conscious behavior of living organisms. Most likely it will need to link consciousness to quantum physics phenomena, happening in DNA-regulated cells.