<scp>AI</scp> from the point of view of ordinary language

Abstract I shall first consider two puzzles that illustrate the contrast between everyday experience or ordinary language, on the one hand, and scientific description on the other. What is common to them is simply that the ordinary description and the scientific description seem to conflict, and the philosopher is called upon to resolve the apparent contradiction. I contend—with some caveats—that there is no such conflict, nothing to adjust. That is one philosophical point (which has been made before). The other is to articulate the lesson for a third puzzle, for the concept of intelligence, particularly with respect to AI or artificial intelligence (especially as purportedly instantiated by LLMs, ‘Large Language Models’).