> nobody is seriously calling it "general intelligence"

Well, I can spot somebody just two messages above you on the thread.

I imagine we will see a lot of people seriously pushing for chatGPT and friends to solve formal problems, take some money, and move away just before some spectacular failure happens.

That will probably also make people very suspicious of AI. (Not that I see any problem with the PR issue.)

I don't think it is either, but "just a neural network" is not a valid criticism. We don't have any reason to think that a properly constructed NN couldn't be a general AI.

Tu quoque :) (You're "just a neural network" too.)

I am seriously calling it general intelligence. Maybe I'm nobody, but my assistant does my bidding.