I don't claim to know anything but I thought tool usage was a major sign of intelligence. For example floats are a wonderful technology but people use them as if chainsaws are great for cutting bread and butter. We now have entire languages that cant do basic arithmetic. I thought it was alarming: People it cant compute like this! Now we have language models, those are still computers, why cant we just give them.. you know... calculators? Arguably the best thing their universe has to offer.
edit: I forgot my point: calculating big numbers is not a real world problem anyone has.