Best reply in this entire thread, and I align with your thinking entirely. I also absolutely hate this idea amongst tech-oriented communities that because an AI can do some algebra and program an 8-bit video game quickly and without any mistakes, it's already overtaking humanity. Extrapolating from that idea to some future version of these models, they may be capable of solving grad school level physics problems and programming entire AAA video games, but again - that's not what _humanity_ is about. There is so much more to being human than fucking programming and science (and I'm saying this as an actual nuclear physicist). And so, just like you said, the AI arm's race is about getting it good at _known_ science/engineering, fields in which 'correctness' is very easy to validate. But most of human interaction exists in a grey zone.
Thanks for this.