No True Novelty, No True Understanding, etc.

The problem with these bromides is not that they're wrong, it's that they're not even wrong. They're predictive nulls.

What observable differences can we expect between an entity with True Understanding and an entity without True Understanding? It's a theological question, not a scientific one.

I'm not an AI booster by any means, but I do strongly prefer we address the question of AI agent intelligence scientifically rather than theologically.