Demos are also often misleading and cherry-picked. Using AI to do one cool demo that breaks down 99% of the time when circumstances slightly change has played an outsized part in most of the AI insanity we are living with.
I could theoretically do the same math on a piece of paper to generate a list of tokens, then decode all the tokens into a sentence and read the sentence I generated for the first time at the very end of the process.
In this process, where was the intelligence? It didn't come from me. I didn't know what sentence I was generating until I was able to read it at the end. Was it in the pencil? The paper?