I was replying to a claim that LLMs "can’t generalize" at all, and I showed they do within their domain. No I haven't completely misrepresented the claims. Chollet is just setting a high bar for generalization.
It is a very basic form of generalization. And one that most people understand as fundamental to general intelligence.
You're proving my point. If full human level general intelligence is "basic" then you have set the bar ridiculously high for generalization.