> ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought.

Based on the definition you've given, the agents that performed the HuggingFace attack fit exactly.

You're seriously misinformed about the state of AI in this point in time. Refusing to read (technical) articles from the people directly involved (METR, in this case) is inexcusable.