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LLMs can't and they don't know what can, it's entirely bullshit. They don't understand "intelligence" or "sentience" or "sapience" or generally how the brain works. These are business bros talking about math nerds while referring to neurobiology (which is entirely outside their field). The domain of brain science is impressive, but very far from mapping out the unknowns, it's not even close.
Which is to say that they can't replicate something that they can't understand at the required level of understanding. The brain is not understandable yet. Which is to say that the story that there's some linear ramp up possible to "climb" to "AGI" and "ASI" and whatever bullshit term they come up with -- that entire story is bullshit. At most, it's old science fiction.
Completely off-topic comment. None of this matters to what we're talking about. Something doesn't have to be sentient, sapient, or intelligent in a human way to be capable of demonstrating unpredictable, novel, and incredibly powerful behaviors. A steam engine is non-sentient, but it vastly exceeds human capabilities in certain applications. It's no different for LLMs. You can stop talking about sentience. That's not what we're talking about here.
Discussions of consciousness are off topic in these conversations. We're discussing the threat posed by LLM-based systems, not whether they deserve rights.
That's not what the AI bros are promoting and selling.
And, in general, aiming a huge data-center full of GPUs at something is going to be powerful.