> not sure I’d call what LLMs do intelligence

No, but it's good enough to replace some office jobs. Which forces us to ask, to what degree is intelligence--unique intelligence--required for useful production? (We can ask the same about physical strength.)

I find it interesting that so much discussion about “LLM’s can do some of our work” is centred around “are they intelligence” and not what I see as the precursor question of “are we doing a lot of bullshit work?”

My partner is in law, along with several friends and the amount of completely _useless_ work and ceremony they’re forced to do is insane. It’s a literal waste of their talent and time. We could probably net most of the claimed AI gains by taking a serious look at pointless workloads and come out ahead due to not needing the energy and capital expenditure.