I feel like these discussions are ultimately much more about semantics than the technology itself. Intelligence and consciousness are such vaguely defined concepts that anyone can just assume a given definition and then declare that an LLM is either “intelligent” or not. It’s pretty much useless to even start these conversations without specifically defining what one even considers intelligence in the first place. Either way the capabilities of the technology are relatively well understood and obviously are impressive but well short of human capabilities in many aspects.