Because it performs at least average human level (mostly well above average) on basically every task it's given.
"Invest something new" is a nonsensical benchmark for human level intelligence. The vast majority of people have never and will never invent anything new.
If your general intelligence test can't be passed by a good chunk of humanity then it's not a general intelligence test unless you want to say most people aren't generally intelligent.
I would argue some programmers do in fact invent something new. Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%.
Second the point is not whether everyone is by profession an inventor but whether most people can be inventors. And to a degree they can be. I think you underestimate that by a large margin.
You can lock people in a room and give them a problem to solve and they will invent a lot if they have the time to do it. GPT will invent nothing right now. It‘s not there yet.
Because it performs at least average human level (mostly well above average) on basically every task it's given.
"Invest something new" is a nonsensical benchmark for human level intelligence. The vast majority of people have never and will never invent anything new.
If your general intelligence test can't be passed by a good chunk of humanity then it's not a general intelligence test unless you want to say most people aren't generally intelligent.