It is artificial intelligence, it just isn't artificial general intelligence, nor artificial general knowledge. LLMs are artificial linguistic intelligence. The

It is artificial intelligence, it just isn't artificial general intelligence, nor artificial general knowledge. LLMs are artificial linguistic intelligence. They are really good at linguistic operations that require intelligence, like summarizing long text, transforming disrespectful text into professional looking text, translation between languages to a certain degree, etc. It is not possible to ask an LLM for factual knowledge, without providing it the source of the fact. Without a source of the fact, you can only ask an LLM to generate an answer to the question that is linguistically convincing. And they can do a really good job at that. They can accidentally encode factual knowledge by predicting the next word correctly, but that should be regarded as an accident.