[Elextric]

Sorry for being pedantic.

The intelligence of something is inconsequential. What truly matters is its ability to convincingly imitate intelligence.

[byyy]

If the imitation becomes indistinguishable to the real thing based off of every test that can possibly be generated in the universe then it is an intelligence.

In that sense, because we are making progress on producing an indistinguishable imitation... you might as well say we are making progress on an actual sentient intelligence.