LLMs are currently over-represented in these debates and that's not doing the bigger AI research area any favors, sadly. People looking for intelligence in LLMs is kind of sad because the entire thought process seems to be:

1. Pour trillions of texts into a huge artificial neural network;

2. Tweak, tweak, tweak until your eyes bleed;

3. Cross your fingers and hope that magic happens;

4. (=> YOU ARE HERE <=) Get disappointed that magic still isn't happening.

I expect more from intelligent adults. Expecting intelligence from LLMs borders on the medieval belief in alchemy (or the phlogiston).