> The problem is millions of years of evolutionary wiring makes us see it as alive

Maybe for laymen, but I would think most technologists should understand that we're working with the output of what is effectively a massive spreadsheet which is creating a prediction.

The thing with evolutionary wiring is that it doesn't matter if you're layman or "technologist". The technologist part is just a small layer on top of very thick caveman/animal insticts and programming.

That's why a technologist can, just as easily as any layman, get addicted to gambling, or do crazy behaviors when attracted by the opposite sex.

The same could be said for your brain.

LLMs are highly intelligent. Comparing them to spreadsheets is reductionist and highly misleading.