Well then we should define the word "evolution". I understand this to mean the "gradual development over time" of something.
However, some may think this refers to the debunked theory that random mutations led to higher forms of life. We are not saying that leaving a computer in the sun will ultimately lead to AI though that is the hokey they taught in the schools. That has been mathematically debunked as the number of random mutations necessary could never have taken place in 13 billion years.
On the other hand there has been a gradual development over time of AI, Chess was not as difficult a problem as Jeopardy which was not as difficult as Go.
But in 2016 alphaGo did something incredible, it taught itself how to play Go, developed strategies that were more advanced than any we had, defeated Lee Sedol, and did all that in a matter of months. Once you have AI that can teach itself without human intervention, that is a major step and the rate of development increased exponentially.
By comparison ChatGPT appears to be much less advanced than where they were six years earlier. That is false, ChatGPT is a data vacuum. The game they want to win this time is people and they realize they must start in elementary school. If you want to truly understand and mimic humans, begin in first grade. But also this is the best time to make them dependent on you, give them a tool that every 4th, 5th and 6th grader will use and by the time they get to HS they will be completely dependent on it.
The development is no longer gradual, but like Go it understands you start from the outside in. Take up the repetitive jobs, the low IQ jobs, but the jobs that the rest of society depends on, and soon, all of society will be dependent on AI.