>to consistently deny the novel usefulness of large language models requires constraining intelligence to a smaller and more exclusionary definition

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about or if you even have a real definition of intelligence. These newer AI systems don't even fit the most basic definition of intelligence, let alone possessing such broad qualities of intelligence that we have to narrow its definition to keep ourselves exceptional. GPT literally isn't capable of self-directed action, learning and thinking. Instead, We factually know that GPT is essentially as the comment you reply to describes and simply applies probability analysis algorithms to enormous data sets, just to then fail at even basic reasoning tasks outside of the information compressed parroting it is algorithmically good at.

The amount of AI woo on this site is astonishing sometimes at this point.