Misleading headline - but after a few para's, the article pretty much admits that Musk & Co.'s actual "AI" goals are keeping their giant egos on top of the white-hot hype heap, and keeping their $billions flowing. Either credibly defining intelligence, or focusing on building something that qualifies, would run contrary to those goals.

Yes, LLMs provide a voice to the library. They transform a collection of written works a living, breathing thing. To go further-- a high-quality collection of works expresses general intelligence, and the LLM converts this into a dynamic general intelligence. It's not quite artificial because, after all, it's a library of writings created by natural intelligence, but the result most certainly is dynamic and interesting.