Nature also makes fake stuff. For example, fish that have an appendix that looks like a worm, to attract prey. It's a fake worm. Is it "artificial"? Nope. Not man made.
I agreed with most of what you said, except the part where you say that real AI is impossible because it's bodiless or "does not experience hunger" and other stuff. That part does not compute.
That's why I said "as standalone things." As a computing curiosity, they're amazing. No language processing application like this existed 30 years ago when I was a kid. You could also see "talking computers" speaking naturally, pretending or not, on movies and TV shows.
I didn't say we aren't animals or that we don't follow physics rules.
But what you're saying is the equivalent of "everything that goes up will eventually go down - that's how physics works and you don't see that, you're in denial!!!11!!!1"
This is a "guns don't kill people - people kill people" kind of scenario.
As a standalone thing, LLMs are awesome.
What sucks is greedy people using them for the wrong reasons.
It's like robots. Playing with robots are awesome. Firing 1,000 people and replacing them with robots - and not sharing the benefits with the community sucks.
It's not that institutionalized people don't follow "set" pattern matches. That's why you're getting downvotes.
Some of those humans can operate with the same brain rules alright. They may even be more efficient at it than you and I may. The higher level functions is a different thing.
Huh? Since when an AI's purpose is to "imitate human behavior"? AI is about solving problems.