It doesn't matter what breakthrough comes next, the goalposts will shift again.
For a while, but I don't see that as being dishonest.
Computers still can't do a lot of things that people can do. And, after the fact, things we thought would be hard for us to get computers to do have turned out to be achievable... in trivial ways that didn't give us much of a clue to how to get computers to do lots of other things that require "intelligence".
Some tasks do call for more sophisticated types of programming than the ordinary things computers are usually used for. They make less efficient use of CPU cycles as well.
But the goal posts won't move if something based on computer hardware has wants, desires, and feelings.
Lets say for the heck of it that this computer is "only" as intelligent as it's programer(s) as you put it, then I think it's safe to say it's far more intelligent than the majority of people.
No. It's not intelligent at all.
It is good at answering trivia questions.
However, if someone told it that the budget for paying the electrical power bill for the computers on which it was running was running out, would it try to think of a way to find a paying job? Would it do anything? Would it even care?
No. It has
none of that sort of thing. It parses text questions fed to it (it didn't do speech recognition, but was treated as a deaf contestant) in a somewhat open-ended manner, but it doesn't come close to dealing with reality like an intelligent organism.
This is not to say that intelligent computers are not possible. The neurons of which our brains are composed are physical objects which obey physical laws. But we are still hugely distant from being able to design true intelligence in silicon.
