"lack of metacognitive insight" is interesting, because I have observed people acting this way too. I have even observed it in myself...

far as i can tell, LLMs are approaching the mythical pzombie

AI (assisted?) summary of the March 2025 Anthropic paper https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

If you asked me last year(2025) I would have still said LLMs are a silly toy.

As of Jan 2026 I have come to accept that LLMs are at least part of the puzzle of how intelligence works. They are at this point better than the majority of humans at various intellectual tasks. It may not be or ever be a 1:1 but good enough ran the world already before llms.

There is not even a formal definition of what intelligence is so saying LLM's are intelligent can't even be "right/wrong". Its just arguing semantics and definitions.

[delayed]

just curious.. are there languages that are better or more efficient to build LLM's with other than English?

I don't recall being promised a black box. Are we certain llms didn't write this article and just came up with one of those It's Not Whatever-random-thing pithy zinger kind of things that they're prone to?