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I think it's like seeing shapes in clouds. Some people just fundamentally can't decouple how a thing looks from what it is. And not in that they literally believe chatgpt is a real sentient being, but deep down there's a subconscious bias. Babbling nonsense included, LLMs look intelligent, or very nearly so. The abrupt appearance of very sophisticated generative models in the public consciousness and the velocity with which they've improved is genuinely difficult to understand. It's incredibly easy to form the fallacious conclusion that these models can keep improving without bound.

The fact that LLMs are really not fit for AGI is a technical detail divorced from the feelings about LLMs. You have to be a pretty technical person to understand AI enough to know that. LLMs as AGI is what people are being sold. There's mass economic hysteria about LLMs, and rationality left the equation a long time ago.