If you want to see just how few clothes the emperor really has, ask an LLM a nontrivial problem in algebra. I just gave a math olympiad question (on the very easy end of the spectrum) to chatGPT and I cringed at its response. If it was a human being I wouldn't even criticize what they wrote, I'd be too embarrassed. And this is not because the answer's bad (and wrong), but because of the very obvious effort that this hypothetical human is making to *look* like it understands what is so obviously does not understand at all.

It's as if LLMs perfectly encapsulate the superficial and vapid nature of the Silicon Valley-rooted modern culture. There's no there there.