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LLMs are not truly intelligent. Never have been, never will be. They model language, not intelligence.
We don't know what intelligence is. It's extremely arrogant to say that something or someone doesn't have it, and never will.
Meanwhile, for practical purposes, there's little arrogance needed to say that some things are preconditions for any form of intelligence that's even remotely recognizable.
1) Learning needs to happen continuously. That's a no-go for now, maybe solvable.
2) Learning needs to require much less data. Very dubious without major breakthroughs, likely on the architectural level. (At which point it's not really an LLM any more, not in the current sense)
3) They need to adapt to novel situations, which requires 1&2 as preconditions. 3
4) There's a good chance intelligence requires embodiment. It's not proven, but it's likely. For one, without observing outcomes, they have little capability to self-improve their reasoning.
5) They lack long-term planning capacity. Again, reliant on memory, but also executive planning.
There's a whole bunch more. Yes, LLMs are absolutely amazing achievements. They are useful, they imply a lot of interesting things about the nature of language, but they aren't intelligent. And without modifying them to the extent that they aren't recognizably what we currently call LLMs, there won't be intelligence. Sure, we can have the ship of Theseus debate, but for practical purposes, nope, LLMs aren't intelligent.