All this stuff is completely beside the point IMO. It's neither particularly interesting or useful to debate whether LLMs truly are or aren't intelligent -- wha

All this stuff is completely beside the point IMO. It's neither particularly interesting or useful to debate whether LLMs truly are or aren't intelligent -- what matters is what they can do (and for better or worse, it's turning out that the extent of what they can do is mushrooming into areas that had been considered uniquely human). An analogy would be debating whether digital art is truly art or not, as it's made by pushing around pixels rather than, as had been the case for all of history before digital art, crumbs of pigment or charcoal. I'm sure there was plenty of debate along those lines when digital art was new, but there'd be no point in debating that today: digital art can look just as impressive and allows at least as much freedom of expression as non-digital art, and that's all that matters.