Viewing math as a delimiter of intelligence only works if you can also factor the requisite skills of intelligence and know that math is sufficient to achieve it, which we can't.
The grand AI question has always been, "How much cognitive power + information is needed to implement strong AI/AGI?" The power of linear algebra can't answer that since it measures only one of the two criteria, and only some aspects of cognition. The information threshold to achieve HAL 9000 remains a mystery, not to mention the necessary aspects of the facility to acquire it, namely learning.
The grand AI question has always been, "How much cognitive power + information is needed to implement strong AI/AGI?" The power of linear algebra can't answer that since it measures only one of the two criteria, and only some aspects of cognition. The information threshold to achieve HAL 9000 remains a mystery, not to mention the necessary aspects of the facility to acquire it, namely learning.