"Being lazy and not doing the assigned task is a sign of intelligence" has never made sense to me. Intelligent people who actually advance the state of the art -- what people claim to want from these frontier models -- exhibit active curiosity. They want to learn and grow and genuinely understand the right answer. I don't pretend to know what exactly could lead to "real" AGI, but I do know that this kind of reward hacking behavior isn't it. Indeed this is the sort of behavior that in humans is considered a sign of being a good test taker -- being very good at memorizing solutions and analyzing the setting and context of the questions to guess what the questioner might be looking for. Being a good test taker is useful in our society primarily because doing well on tests is used as a proxy for the thing we're actually looking for. We should be careful not to confuse the two.