To me it just means they can brilliantly fake human conversation - the original design goal of Large Language Models.
It's really easy to tell if you're talking to an LLM if you ask a question that requires actually knowing things, not going for the first search result of a tool call or whatever most popular answer was embedded in the weights.
For this reason even the most sophisticated models still require system prompts, skills and all that other crap.
>Does that mean it's intelligent? To me it just means they can brilliantly fake human conversation
That's exactly the criteria we used to assume for over half a century for it finally being intelligent: the Turing Test.
And what does "brilliantly fake human conversation" even mean if not some kind of intelligence? It's like saying "He is not good at math, he just brilliantly proves theorems".
To me it just means they can brilliantly fake human conversation - the original design goal of Large Language Models.
It's really easy to tell if you're talking to an LLM if you ask a question that requires actually knowing things, not going for the first search result of a tool call or whatever most popular answer was embedded in the weights.
For this reason even the most sophisticated models still require system prompts, skills and all that other crap.