It's all so tiring.

Everyone decides what to think on this issue, then finds out facts to support their idea.

As it stands they are massively useful tools, but for generating usable products they require either A) a lot of expert steering or B) a well defined easily verifiable target and a large compute budget. Most people are using them in mode A with good effect, the progress on math has been done in mode B, which is very promising.

Just a year and a half ago their maximal use was rephrase, summarize, and homework-level tasks.

Five years from now? There be dragons.

"But are they generally intelligent?" What a meaningless question!