[ben_w]

I very much appreciate all the ways we're improving our ideas of what "smart" means.

I wouldn't call LLMs "smart" either, but with a different definition than the one you use here: to me, at the moment, "smart" means being able to learn efficiently, with few examples needed to master a new challenge.

This may not be sufficient, but it does avoid any circular arguments about if any given model would have any "understanding" at all.