It’s sad that I get downvoted so easily just for saying the truth. People’s beliefs about AI here seems to approach superstition rather than anything based in computer science.

These LLM are nothing more than really big spreadsheets.

Or most of us know the difference between reductiveness and insightfulness.

"Um it's just a big spreadsheet" just isn't good commentary and reminds me of people who think being unimpressed reveals some sort of chops about them, as if we might think of them as the Simon Cowell of tech because they bravely reduced a computer to an abacus.

Hyping things up with magical thinking isn’t great either.

Isn't that what you're doing with the magic human understanding vs the fake machine understanding?