@nottrobin@mcc@michaelgemar@PTR_K@Qybat@futurebird the way I describe it, LLMs are "intelligent" but not necessarily "smart", with both terms being complete junk to begin with which is why people argue over them constantly.
They possess certain cognitive abilities around language processing, but not a full set of cognitive abilities and many fall in "sub-human" or "lower end of human" ranges (a popular usage of one it's good at is Executive Function, which gets it used by a lot of ADHD/Autistic people who have an impairment in our executive functioning).
I definitely agree regardless that they're either applied poorly or presented poorly in most cases. (ie. applied poorly meaning cases like customer service LLMs that get companies sued, and presented poorly being cases like search where people are treating it as authoritative as opposed to supplementary).
And the programming assistant side gets wildly misrepresented (as someone who happily uses AI as a programming assistant, but never in the ways people seem to think it gets used...)