Yes! While it appears nuanced, it is like AI speaking in AAVE (ebonics) or Jamaican Patois. These are all tasks.
Most human intellect resides in performing tasks —the first level being mimicking and repetition in learning. These are the tasks AI is performing.
Therefore, in addition to my first definition, I will add human intellect development tasks.
Generative AI uses predictive text to respond. Once you upload a file, Gen AI provides a summary. If you request that it create a podcast, AI uses the information to generate a conversation. I know this because I go back and forth with Chat GPT. Sometimes, Chat GPT generates my request in two formats so that I can compare.
With Audio Gen AI, this task becomes two versions of the same information—but the two outputs have a conversation—predicting how AI -1 will answer based on the last text output of AI -2.
So, how do you define the aforementioned level of performance if you believe it's BEYOND task-oriented?
Now, when AI is at the apex of performing intellectual tasks and has become cognitive, it responds to requests with an original concept not found in uploaded documents or on the Internet -then whoa.
When AI is "thinking, assessing, and being aware" without input, I will find a little plot of land on uncharted territory.