Well... complaining about people online or in the media making grandiose is like fighting wind. I totally see your point about inherent "derivativeness" of LLM

Well... complaining about people online or in the media making grandiose is like fighting wind. I totally see your point about inherent "derivativeness" of LLMs. This is true. But note how "being alive" or "being intelligent" or "be able to think" are hard to define. I'd work for the "duck test" approach: if it is not possible to distinguish a simulation from the original then it doesn't make sense to draw a line. Anyways, yes, LLMs are boring. I am just not sure we people are not boring as well.