At least it's an easy way for those who don't know that they're talking about to out themselves.

If they'd bother to see how modern neuroscience tries to explain human cognition they'd see it explained in terms that parallel modern ML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

We only have theories for what intelligence even means, I wouldn't be surprised there are more similarities than differences between human minds and LLMs, fundamentally (prediction and error minimization)