I think you're spot on here. Yes, if one's trying to compare human and GPT intelligence, then you have to define what counts as memorisation and what counts as

I think you're spot on here. Yes, if one's trying to compare human and GPT intelligence, then you have to define what counts as memorisation and what counts as reasoning. But what most people outside of academia are trying to do is work out whether a GPT can effectively replace a human in some time-consuming task, and to be able to do so without access to the internet is rarely an important factor.