I am getting tired of takes like this. LLMs are parrots, but they parrot human language which seems to encode our reasoning abilities into its structure. So if you can mimic language well enough, you start to mimic reasoning abilities.

I feel like we should have all moved on from the fact that LLMs don't have a very precise memory? This is (not entirely, but mostly) fixed by including the information you want to query in the prompt itself, like Bing does. ChatGPT is much better at summarization than precise fact recall.

And most of the time, it doesn't matter. When I'm using ChatGPT to learn or troubleshoot something, it's a jumping off point, not the end of the story. As long as everyone understands that, there's no problem. I have yet to see anyone who treats its output as 100% fact, and no AI company claims it either.