Yeah, the current backlash over LLMs in any capacity is a meme. It has turned into tribal politics. There is no longer thought behind the criticisms.

Also, it’s not the stochastic prediction part that makes LLMs “not intelligence” to me. It’s that it’s only predicting the next token in a string of text. I don’t believe this can approach what we do. To me it could well be that some other sort of token prediction is what we do even when we introspect and think of a model of the world.