You're doing it, too. You're thinking of these AI models in terms of human intelligence. The models are not operating at a lower or higher level along a scale

You're doing it, too. You're thinking of these AI models in terms of human intelligence. The models are not operating at a lower or higher level along a scale of human intelligence, so they're not genius-like or child-like. They're not operating on the same scale at all. They're text prediction models, and many seem to insist on anthropomorphizing them in a way that causes them to forget that every other second or so.