>While I agree that LLMs are hardly sapient, it's very hard to make this argument without being able to pinpoint what a model of intelligence actually is.

Maybe so, but it's trivial to do the inverse, and pinpoint something that's not intelligent. I'm happy to state that an entity which has seen every game guide ever written, but still can't beat the first generation Pokemon is not intelligent.

This isn't the ceiling for intelligence. But it's a reasonable floor.