You're using "cognitive mimicry" to deride AI, but isn't that the best way to augment our intelligence - by mimicking it? More to your point: profound doesn't

You're using "cognitive mimicry" to deride AI, but isn't that the best way to augment our intelligence - by mimicking it? More to your point: profound doesn't really just mean "deep" in this context, but even if it does, I don't see how LLMs in their current state (with some better UX) don't do that. Sure you can't ask it to guess your deepest inner beliefs, but engaging with an LLM in a dialogue can greatly speed up deep, focused knowledge work, such as brainstorming ideas, structuring writing, investigating hypothesis, etc. In short, I think it's more than a bit misguided to say AI only has shallow benefits because it's not yet capable of extremely deep thoughts on its own.