It's actually very weird to "believe" LLMs are "intelligent".
Pragmatic people see news like "LLMs achieve gold in Math Olympiad" and think "oh wow, it can do maths at that level, cool!" This gets misinterpreted by so called "critics of LLM" who scream "NO THEY ARE JUST STOCHASTIC PARROTS" at every opportunity yet refuse to define what intelligence actually is.
The average person might not get into that kind of specific detail, but they know that LLMs can do some things well but there are tasks they're not good at. What matters is what they can do, not so much whether they're "intelligent" or not. (Of course, if you ask a random person they might say LLMs are pretty smart for some tasks, but that's not the same as making a philosophical claim that they're "intelligent")
Of course there's also the AGI and singularity folks. They're kinda loony too.
Pragmatic people see news like "LLMs achieve gold in Math Olympiad" and think "oh wow, it can do maths at that level, cool!" This gets misinterpreted by so called "critics of LLM" who scream "NO THEY ARE JUST STOCHASTIC PARROTS" at every opportunity yet refuse to define what intelligence actually is.
The average person might not get into that kind of specific detail, but they know that LLMs can do some things well but there are tasks they're not good at. What matters is what they can do, not so much whether they're "intelligent" or not. (Of course, if you ask a random person they might say LLMs are pretty smart for some tasks, but that's not the same as making a philosophical claim that they're "intelligent")
Of course there's also the AGI and singularity folks. They're kinda loony too.