You're arguing semantics, but I think that expanding your definition of intelligence to include ant colonies and weather systems is going to make it completely useless to say anything at all about an LLM.
The problem with all of this is that because an LLM gives a facsimile of language and conversation people believe it can "comprehend" or "understand" or whatever word you want to use. This problem isn't new, AI research has had this issue for decades. The risk is that this makes people misunderstand and offload their decision making to it, treating it like a person to be instructed or reasoned with. It isn't, and can never be.
The problem with all of this is that because an LLM gives a facsimile of language and conversation people believe it can "comprehend" or "understand" or whatever word you want to use. This problem isn't new, AI research has had this issue for decades. The risk is that this makes people misunderstand and offload their decision making to it, treating it like a person to be instructed or reasoned with. It isn't, and can never be.