What many of us kind of sort of knew is now being born out by research. LLMs don't reason (and probably never will), and that's a *big* problem.
We've just been dazzled by the statistical complexity of our own natural languages, and fooled by our well-known tendency to project agency on to things that *appear* even vaguely human. (Think of "Wilson" in Castaway...)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and