And yet this "next-token predictor" is able to churn out well tested, valuable solutions, to complex problems. If you want to downplay that as nothing more than a fancy auto-complete, be my guest, I lose nothing from that.
Are we going in circles now?
Same for countless computer programs from Excel to Google web search. Intelligence has nothing to do with it.
Throw an unimaginable amount of computer power at a problem, and there will always be people who cannot imagine the results to be anything but the creations of intelligence.