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It is because the goalposts were wrong.

We once thought that a computer could not beat a grandmaster in chess or pass the Turing test without some undefined special human property. We were wrong about the computer needing this undefined special human property.

A spreadsheet has been much better at math than the average person for a long time too. A spreadsheet is a very useful human tool. LLMs are a revolutionary useful tool. For some people that doesn't seem to be enough though and they have to try to find or insist the LLM has the undefined special human property.