We're relearning that intelligence is spikey, and that different things that we consider 'intelligent' can have vastly different capabilities.
by any meaningful measure of intelligence. the latest models are much smarter than the bulk of the population.
how would you define intelligence?
That is a meaningful measure of intelligence that every LLM completely fails at.
Maybe I'm just significantly and unrepresentatively unlucky, but Claude is significantly more intelligent than the average human around me on most any metric I can think of.