The analogy with alchemy was very on point; this stuff is an Eliza de nos jours, a clever parlour trick and for sure not without its uses, but it is not intelli

The analogy with alchemy was very on point; this stuff is an Eliza de nos jours, a clever parlour trick and for sure not without its uses, but it is not intelligence in any meaningful definition of that term. A lot of folks are dismissive of these criticisms by claiming that we have no evidence that human cognition is fundamentally different, but it must be - our referents are based in the real world, whereas the LLMs have no such referents, and it is this tie-back to reality that underpins our ability to act intelligently. And the argument that an equivalent understanding can somehow be an emergent property is undermined by the observation that the LLMs have no concept of truth, and no ability to tell whether their output is pure BS.