The analogy I use is that illiterate people obviously can't spell, but it doesn't say much about their ability on other tasks. General intelligence doesn't need

The analogy I use is that illiterate people obviously can't spell, but it doesn't say much about their ability on other tasks. General intelligence doesn't need to be able to spell, since that describes a fair number of actual humans. (There are tasks that LLMs totally fail on that would be obvious to an illiterate human though)