Yes it is obviously not an AGI in the sense of an intelligent, persistent agent, but it is also obviously a huge step towards one. It's like a single pass of thought on a topic, combined with self iteration and recursion in answer generation it would not be surprising to me if answers become an order of magnitude better. And we haven't even hit hardware limits.

I believe an order of magnitude stronger ChatGPT is an unacceptable risk to us all, it will let those who own and control it wield power which our government shows no sign of being able to regulate. We don't allow private research and ownership of nukes...