The amusing thing is that despite all you describe, and which many other people have described on this site and in others in great detail about the nature of LL

The amusing thing is that despite all you describe, and which many other people have described on this site and in others in great detail about the nature of LLMs, there are still many people who believe that these models essentially possess intelligence, and that it's little different from how a human mind expresses cognition. I've seen this thinking to be especially prevalent among tech types (especially among many comments on this site), and more so than among average non-tech people I know. It seems to be a reflection of a certain forced, almost ideological techno-reductionist thinking against the honestly complex and largely mysterious nature of consciousness. Many non-tech people on the other hand accept this mystery of consciousness and paradoxically are thus less likely to consider an LLM to be anything deeper than the clever but mindless pattern-matching trick that it is