If it allows you to distinguish readily between human intelligence and computer intelligence, it seems quite relevant to the question of whether computers have achieved something akin to human intelligence.
It may not be useful for anything else, but at least it can say that.
which just brings us back to the whole birds vs planes thing.
turns out that flapping wings is not the right way to unlock human flight.
computers could count the Rs in strawberry since vacuum tubes. that measure is irrelevant.