"You hear all the time about the wonders of AI, all the amazing things that it can do," says Ed Wasserman, Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Iowa and the study's corresponding author. "It can beat the pants off people playing chess, or at any video game, for that matter. It can beat us at all kinds of things. How does it do it? Is it smart? No, it's using the same system or an equivalent system to what the pigeon is using here."
A discussion of AI vs the humble pigeon.
https://bigthink.com/13-8/what-kind-...ligence-is-ai/
Pigeons are unlikely to get smarter, AI probably will, but still has some way to go.
And another view
"In this way our AI wonder-machines are really prediction machines whose prowess comes out of the statistics gleaned from the training sets. (While I am oversimplifying the wide range of machine learning algorithms, the gist here is correct.) This view does not diminish in any way the achievements of the AI community, but it underscores how little this kind of intelligence (if it should be
called such) resembles our intelligence."
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-pigeon...elligence.html