…And that people take the bait and anthropomorphize it, believing it is “reasoning” and “thinking”.

It seems like people want to believe it because it makes the world more exciting and sci-fi for them. Even people who don’t find gpt personally useful, get carried away when talking about the geopolitical race to develop agi first.

And I sort of understand why, because the alternative (and I think real explanation) is so depressing - namely we are wasting all this money, energy and attention on fools’ gold.