This is a great explanation of a point I've been trying to make for a while, when talking to friends about LLMs, but haven't been able to put quite so succinctly. LLMs are text generators, no more, no less. That has all sorts of useful applications! But (OAI and friends) marketing departments are so eager to push the Intelligence part of AI that it's become straight-up snakeoil.. there is no intelligence to be found, and there never will be as long as we stay the course on transformers-based models (and, as far as I know, nobody has tried to go back to the drawing board yet). Actual, real AI will probably come one day, but nobody is working on it yet, and it probably won't even be called "AI" at that point because the term has been poisoned by the current trends. IMO there's no way to correct the course on the current set of AI/LLM products.

I find the current products incredibly helpful in a variety of domains: creating writing in particular, editing my written work, as an interface to web searches (Gemini, in particular, is a rockstar assistant for helping with research), etc etc. But I know perfectly well there's no intelligence behind the curtain, it's really just a text generator.