I think GPT is on the other hand both over- and underestimated because it speaks well but often makes reasoning mistakes we only expect of someone less eloquent, and it throws us.

If it had come across as an inquisitive child, we'd have been a lot more overbearing of it's "hallucinations" for example, because kids do variations over that all the time.

At the same time, it can do some things most children would have no hope of.

It's a category of "intelligence" we're unfamiliar with, additionally hobbled with no dynamic long term memory.