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Am I learning, or am I just prompting?
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For me, a core requirement for intelligence is comprehension, something a LLM is intrinsically incapable of possessing nor performing.
‘Artificial Intelligence’ has been used for decades, but it has never functionally been anything more than a marketing term; originally conjured for a grant proposal, and subsequently oozed into entertainment and politics.
No one who is impressed by the function, or output, of a LLM to the level they consider it to be in any way adjacent to intelligence, should be involved in a decision making process which affects anyone not similarly cognitively impaired.
I think the way the word Ai we used in the past for computer programs and games, and with the modern LLM is, we actually mean "the illusion of an intelligence". Because that is what the term Ai in most cases mean. Ai is as much of an illusion like VR is not a real reality. Maybe we should have called it Vi, for Virtual Intelligence. But that is just yapping about the words, where their meaning doesn't change just because you use a different word.
Yes, there are lot of people who don't understand the technology and think Ai is comparable to the way how "real" intelligence work. But in reality it is just perceived to be intelligent, making it a virtual illusion of it.