LLMs are the reason everyone is suddenly taking seriously the ideas that machines can be intelligent. Government officials, non-tech pundits, C-suite inhabitants, average people, everyone is now concerned about AI and its implications.
And I would say that's because of LLMs ability to predict the outcome of an experiment really well.
As for the "pretending", I think that comes from the fact LLMs are doing something quite different than humans to produce language. But that doesn't make them unintelligent. Just makes them not human.
> Government officials, non-tech pundits, C-suite inhabitants, average people, everyone is now concerned about AI and its implications.
All you need for that is for the AI to talk like experts, not for the AI to be experts. AI talking like experts without understanding much maps very well to what we see today.
And I would say that's because of LLMs ability to predict the outcome of an experiment really well.
As for the "pretending", I think that comes from the fact LLMs are doing something quite different than humans to produce language. But that doesn't make them unintelligent. Just makes them not human.