Of course LLMs can be intelligent. We've trained billions of humans to be automatons and simply work within the confines of school and work. Never create origin

Of course LLMs can be intelligent. We've trained billions of humans to be automatons and simply work within the confines of school and work. Never create original thought. Why would a machine not be able to emulate this? The question implies a difference between human automatons who perform jobs and follow rules, vs intelligence in the sense of philosophy or generating original ideas beyond the confines of training. It's like saying most humans aren't intelligent. Absurd. LLMs are absolutely capable of this. The counterpoint tends to be around emotion and empathy. Besides being a very clear shifting of goalposts, this is already solved. We have several intelligent humans who have limited empathy and emotions. Are we to argue they aren't intelligent? Some of our most brilliant people, and many people who just live their normal lives, are excluded from the premise of the question. I suspect it is rooted in a fear that human intelligence isn't exceptional. AI models are already intelligent, the question is what humans we're comparing them to.