Well, and let's not treat it like dancing bear either.
I've been following AI/ML for years so I'm not blown away like so many other people. I know enough I'm also not mystified by the current popular form. Which is to say there have been previous. LLMs are not AGI but still "a form of AI". Unfortunately AI has become a buzzword, actually it has been for years.
While many are just coming to the party I feel a sense of relief that this area of research has been able to produce a functional product for the public.
And while I'm still excited for the moment we identify personhood, I fully expect pushback from somewhere to deny its existence. The wealthy have fought to automated labor and they will not give up their slaves easily.
This is the problem right here AI as a definition is now fairly meaningless. Are they self aware ... no and they're not designed to be. Can they do intelligent things?... well yes when they're trained to with huge amounts of probably flawed data.
I use these models everyday to look up answers to coding problems which prior to this required minutes of wading through ad riddled noise.
we know the architecture but we don’t know what happens in the black box.