>> ChatGPT 3.5 is already a general AI based on the old definition

> It's not. It's a query-retrieval system that can parse human language.

And humans aren't general AI either. They're just DNA replicators. It is very obvious when you realize that humans weren't designed to be intelligent. They were just randomly iterated through an environment which selected for maximum DNA replication.

Until you have a higher being which explicitly designs for intelligence, you'll just get things like LLM query-retrievals, or DNA replicators.