"People are falling in love with LLMs" and "P(Doom) is fearmongering" so close to each other is some cognitive dissonance.

The 'are LLMs intelligent?' discussion should be retired at this point, too. It's academic, the answer doesn't matter for businesses and consumers; it matters for philosophers (which everyone is even a little bit). 'Are LLMs useful for a great variety of tasks?' is a resounding 'yes'.