My main thought is that he was performing something general here that is actually valuable and hard for a large proportion of humanity. It's like when Google search was a difficult thing, or troubleshooting a PC. what he is able to do here is actually a rare skill, called intelligence and he may think it's nothing, but it's actually very rare and hard for most people. The kind of judgment and interpretation of output without deep expertise is actually a very rare ability.
No this guy demonstrated zero intelligence unless the word has already lost all meaning.
I think most people could not get this conjecture proven if given infinite time at the keyboard with the same chatbot. He demonstrated much more initiative and problem solving instinct than what a large majority of people are capable of. Have you seen people trying to trouble shoot a printer or a software issue? Often the answer is just to search Google and read some forum post and execute the steps and deal with any arising minimal obstacles. Still insurmountable to most.
I disagree. I see nothing creative about this guy’s efforts. The models will continue improving and soon his creative leaps of asking it to double check won’t be necessary.