Are large language models really AI?

Companies who operate call centeres:

They refuse to hire people in the nations they operate in, and instead setup call centeres in places like India cause they can pay them 10 cents a day there (they can absolautely afford to setup these things in the home nations, they just have investors demands to continually increase profits so they do this scummy stuff).

This allows these people who work there to get expereince interacting with western populations, they then move on from working for 10 cents a day and setup scam operations to continually phone western numbers to scam money out of your granny instead.

The 2nd thing would not exist if western companies were not taking advantage of cheap labor in the 3rd world in the first place, so in effect the call centers for your ISP, Bank etc and other companies are causing the scammers/theft we all have to put up with.

Also in relation to AI, these companies are now using AI products that change the voice of the person you are talking so in real time. So it can be an Indian man and they can make it sound like a western man.

No doubt in a few years, the scammers will also be using this AI tech too and it will be harder for "this is your bank sir" scammers to be instantly detected.

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And if not what would or could be? (This assumes that we are intelligent.)

Sub questions:
1, Is self awareness needed for intelligence?
2, Is conciseness needed for intelligence?
3, Would creativity be possible without intelligence?
Feel free to ask more.

I say they aren't. To me they are search engines that have leveled up once or twice but haven't evolved.

They use so much electricity because they have to sift through darn near everything for each request. Intelligence at a minimum would prune search paths way better than LLMs do. Enough to reduce power consumption by several orders of magnitude.

After all if LLMs aren't truly AI then whatever is will suck way more power unless they evolve.

I don't think that LLM's hallucinations are disqualifying. After all I and many of my friends spent real money for hallucinations.

Are Large Language Models Really AI?