I am surprised by how many, even among the tech community, wholesale disregard GPT as a glorified auto-complete, or "a statistical model on human information".

I am surprised by how many, even among the tech community, wholesale disregard GPT as a glorified auto-complete, or "a statistical model on human information". What, then, is the human brain if not a trained statistical model? Granted it is considerably more sophisticated in some ways, but in many other ways it is less sophisticated and less capable.