Have we reached AGI ?

Is AI truly intelligent ?

To answer this, we must first define what intelligence is.

As I was pondering on this matter, I realised the only benchmark of intelligence we have is Human Beings...
As a fellow human being myself, I realised a human defining intelligence with only having humans as a reference point could prove to be immensely difficult...
This prompted me to look for other intelligent species ...even fictional ones.

The "Trisolarians" from the "3 Body Problem" series of books are an quite an interesting species...
Their "Intelligence" operates within a wildly different framework compared to human beings, serving as a tool that made their great feats possible.

Why would an organism develop intelligence ?
Does "Intelligence" expressed in certain ways contribute to the fitness of the population, for it to be selected by the fitness maximizing function of evolution, or in a broader sense, life ?
If "Intelligence" is an output generated by "Life", going deeper might posit the question: Why does life exist ?

Pop culture depictions of Aliens often possess superior technology (sometimes shown as a product of superior intelligence or advancement)...
Humans are said to be more intelligent than chimps...

Observing this, one may ask, what is the output resulted from "Intelligence" ? What does possesing "more intelligence" result in ?

Aliens with superior tech are able to exert more power, more influence over this universe compared to human beings...
Humans with superior tech are able to exert more power, more influence over this universe compared to chimps...

Power could be defined as Causal Entropy itself...

The more "Power" you have, the more options you have... Your probability distribution of your infinite future trajectories gets closer to a uniform distribution...
A powerful man and a powerless man have the same theoretical number of infinite possibilities at any given situation...
However, a powerful man's has more possibilities that are viable... or rather, the probability distribution is more uniformly distributed...
One might raise the question of negative possibilities being more viable for the powerless man... But that isn't necessarily true... Assuming complete freedom, powerful and powerless men have equal amount of influence if their goal is to optimize for a negative outcome... for eg. Losing 1000 USD... both can make it happen if they want to... But gaining 1000 USD is way easier, way more viable possibility for the powerful man...

As I continued on this line of thinking, I found myself independantly working toward an entropy-maximization interpretation of intelligence and physical systems that seemed to rhyme with Wissner-Gross’s formulation...

However, extending it further...

If evolution arrived at intelligence, an entropy maximizing function...
If life arrived at intelligence, an entropy maximizing function...

Couldn't Life be an Entropy maximizing function in and of itself ?

Heck, could the goal/intent of the grand universe be entropy maximization ?

"Is the universe seeking to maximize entropy ?"

Well, the expanding universe might make sure we never reach it... rhyming with a Red Queen effect where causal entropy of the universe keeps increasing, but standard entropy of the universe remains constant..

Blackholes are often framed as something that has maximum standard entropy...
Could we frame Life and by inheritance Intelligence as something that has maximum causal entropy ?

That was quite a bit of rambling... but hey, its fun to think about...!