But, all we’ve achieved at this point is making a glorified token predicting machine trained on existing data (made by humans), not really being able to be creative outside of deriving things humans have already made before. Granted, they‘re really good at doing that, but not much else.
Remove token, and that's what we humans do.
Like, you need to realize that neural networks came to be because someone had the idea to mimic our brains' functionality, and see where that lead to.
Many skeptics at the beginning like you discredited the inventor, but he was proved wrong. LLMs shown how much more than your limited description they can achieve.
We mimicked birds with airplanes, and we can outdo them. It's actually in my view very short sighted to say we can't just mimic brains and outdo them. We're there. ChatGPT is the initial little planes that flew close to the ground and barely stayed up