I find now I quickly bucket people in to "have not/have barely used the latest AI models" or "trolls" when they express a belief current LLMs aren't intelligent.

You can put me in that bucket then. It's not true, I've been working with AI almost daily for 18 months, and I KNOW it's no where close to being intelligent, but it doesn't look like your buckets are based on truth but appeal. I disagree with your assessment so you think I don't know what I'm talking about. I hope you can understand that other people who know just as much as you (or even more) can disagree without being wrong or uninformed. LLMs are amazing, but they're nowhere close to intelligent.

Call me back when ChatGPT isn't hallucinating half the outputs it gives me.