No they don't but psychics also don't have a verifiable feedback mechanism and unlimited retries. Give the psychic the ability to adjust answers based on tests and you'll have have a fair fight.

In my opinion, this article is talking about people who get into long conversations and become convinced the model is “intelligent”, maybe even “AGI”. This seems to be a trap people are falling into, even in 2026.

Neither do LLMs. Humans using them do. Similar to how cops solve crimes using psychics.

On one side I agree that LLMs and Agents are not intelligent, but they present an illusion of intelligence given the shear amount of data they can process and act upon.

But that cannot be used to discredit the fact that these are incredibly powerful tools that can get out of control and cause great damage.

Neither does LLMs. Not without a monumental amount of human oversight and expertise.

Everyone not in a particular field asking LLM about said field is rolling bad dice.