>That LLMs were nothing but glorified stochastic parrots.

Well yes , now we know they make kids kill themselves.

I think we've all fooled ourselves like this beetle

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/t...

for thousands of years up until 2020 anything that conversed with us could safely be assumed to be another sentient/intelligent being.

No we have something that does that, but is neither sentient or intelligent, just a (complex)deterministic mechanism.