We should completely strip all this talk from AI as a field (and get rid of that name as well). It just causes endless confusion, especially for general audience. In the end, the whole shtick with LLMs is that we train matrices to predict next tokens. You can explain this entire concept without invoking AGI, Roko's basilisk, the nature of human consciousness, and all the other mumbo jumbo that tries so hard to make this field what it is not.

I eagerly await your publications. I will buy your book.

But people love misguided narratives and analogies. How else should we kill time when we are to dumb to accelerate inevitable progress and just need to wait for it?