https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
We are no further to general artificial intelligence than we were a decade ago.
And to be honest, a LLM could have give me the same response.
(But I made no claims of AGI btw.)
It could, or it could've hallucinated something :)
But then again, I could too, if I smoked enough or fell on my head.
Plus it would've produced more CO2 than I did, hopefully :)
Did it hurt, you know, when you fell?
The problem here is you're complaining about cult members, then acting like one of the anthrocentric cult members yourself. I agree that we should build a human centered world, but ignoring our many faults won't get us anywhere.
We already did that and it's hell for a myriad of other lifeforms.
And to be honest, a LLM could have give me the same response.
(But I made no claims of AGI btw.)