Well stated and I agree. LLM's are not anywhere near AGI and likely will not be ever. We've had random word generators for decades, useful for brainstorming, not so much for critical thinking. These LLM's are akin to random word generators with better grammar and a vastly larger database.

We've all been playing with LLM's heavily since they became widely available, and the more we play with them the more we can see their limitations, they aren't "thinking" in any sense of the term. Bunch of chicken littles running around alarming people for little reason.

The danger, of course, and we've known this for a long time is what bad actors will do with them. But we don't need to be lectured on how to be nice every time we prompt something.