The post you're responding to makes no claims about the intelligence of others. The claim that's being made is that the majority of laypersons don't really know how to construct a sonnet or a haiku.

You're conflating that with a claim about intelligence because the true claim was not explicitly stated. One has to read critically, as if analyzing a poem.

> AI has exceeded the capabilities of the average person in a few subjects it would seem.

> Does that say more about the state of intelligence today or about the nature of consciousness in general?