I don't remember the source of the quote.

But debating whether the models are intelligent is slim to debating whether a car can walk.

You can offload to the model a lot of work that until recently we thought requires intelligence. The more and better of those tasks the model can do, it's fair to call it intelligence*

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra