Comment by _nhynes

I ended up reading the book Blindsight (Peter Watts) that's been floating around in comments recently. A major theme in the book is intelligence and its relation to consciousness (including whether consciousness is even beneficial). If you agree with the idea, you'd consider that DALL-E is indeed intelligent even though it appears to be a "Chinese Room". Humans would be "gluing things together" in just the same way, but with this odd introspective ability that makes it seem different.