Comment by imiric

> Most non-technical people have an inaccurate mental model of how LLMs work, based mostly on sci-fi movies like 2001 or Terminator, where they anthromorphise the model

That's a twisted perspective. The fact non-technical people misunderstand this technology can only be blamed on AI companies who are the first to anthropomorphize their products. Phrases like "thinking", "reasoning", "chain-of-thought", the term "AI" itself for that matter, let alone "AGI", are precisely what leads people to believe that these tools are far more capable than they actually are. We can't blame the general public for being misled by companies.