I think people just expect Star Trek TNG’s ship computer or Data. To some extend, LLMs have some of the properties ascribed to those fictional AIs like the abi

I think people just expect Star Trek TNG’s ship computer or Data. To some extend, LLMs have some of the properties ascribed to those fictional AIs like the ability to access a wide amount of knowledge. They lack the precise rigorous thinking that those fictional AIs have though - LLMs even hallucinate. Those fictional AIs are what people want because they perfectly complement our weaknesses - our tendency to forget stuff and our tendency to occasionally screw up reasoning; those fictional AIs act as a “safety net”. At the moment many more limited “dumb” tools like a regular search engine algorithm or your handheld calculator does a better job of being a “safety net” went it comes to specific things.