From an THE TRUTH ABOUT AI vid

> The 'ELIZA effect' describes the human tendency to attribute intelligence and understanding to AI, even when its mechanisms are simple keyword matching.

How long can people be in denial about this? Eliza was a very simple pattern matching system that tried to emulate the rather content-less psychonalytical therapy talk ("tell me about your father"). Current LLMs are nothing like it. You can give them tasks that everybody would have seen as requiring intelligence two minutes ago, and they can hold sensible conversations about nearly any topic.

Saying that that isn't intelligence is like saying that actually, airplanes do not really fly, because flying in biological systems involves flapping wings, and airplanes don't do that. So it might look like flight but it really is something different.

OK, i don't care about the word you use for that ability, but when you have a machine that can talk to you and work together with you to solve hard problems that would absolutely have required another human before, that's a lot more than a markov chain or a "you mentioned crying. how does that make you feel?" text matcher.