[dmz73]

LLMs are just programs that can produce human-like language output based on human-like language input and that calling them AI of any kind is greatly overstating their capabilities. There is no "reasoning" or "understanding" here, there is just a giant ball of mud full of auto-generated if-then-else like code with calls to random number function peppered around.

The two main problems I see with attributing AI to these programs are: 1. People will assume they are receiving intelligent response they can rely on without sanity checking. This is different than receiving the same response from other people because one learns to know who to trust and when. You can never trust these programs. 2. If/when real AI emerges it will be treated poorly because most people will assume it is the same "brainless" AI they were sold so many times before. In that respect the treatment of real AI will be equivalent to child abuse or slavery and will result in another giant black mark in human history.