What I've always disliked about calling it "memorisation" is that we already have machines with much better memorisation than what LLMs do: the hard drives with the source documents.
To the extent that it's able to respond to and with natural language, this is already an improvement over, say, grep or PageRank.
To the extent that it is memorisation in the way we mean when we say a human has memorised something, it's an example of another aspect of what was meant by "intelligence" when I was growing up.
It's definitely weird and alien as an intelligence, but it still ticks the boxes we used to have even a decade ago, 2014, let alone the late 80s to 1999 when I turned 16.
To the extent that it's able to respond to and with natural language, this is already an improvement over, say, grep or PageRank.
To the extent that it is memorisation in the way we mean when we say a human has memorised something, it's an example of another aspect of what was meant by "intelligence" when I was growing up.
It's definitely weird and alien as an intelligence, but it still ticks the boxes we used to have even a decade ago, 2014, let alone the late 80s to 1999 when I turned 16.