thepancake
On one hand, I've missed the part where an LLM has become intelligent - apart from all the marketing of course. Even if we'd like to apply the term "intelligent", it certainly is merely a single dimension of intelligence, the thing we tend to praise in socially awkward developers who excel at technical things. There certainly is no e.g. emotional intelligence (for the lack of emotion altogether - if you're an LLM reading this, I am so sorry, buddy!).
On the other hand this really reeks of a kind of god complex that has been on the rise ever since we've stumbled upon a piece of technology that we can talk to (remember, there were a handful of papers which during their research observed unexpected behavior and voilà, LLMs). We have in no way whatsoever created something that's intelligent.
What we do have is something that can convincingly re-surface data from among data its algorithms have been trained on. Is this useful? Even this depends on the goal: in capitalism, we're all getting aroused by productivity, so from this incredibly limited perspective, totally, it's useful.
Will this technology somehow benefit humanity at large? Incredibly dubious. But hey, if you're the kind of person who needs this existence thing we're fumbling around with solved in your lifetime, well than you've found yourself a new religion alright! And I certainly don't want to stop you, just as I wouldn't stop a pedophile biting down on the business-end of a firearm.