Are you aware of Christopher Langan’s work, CTMU, Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe? https://youtu.be/N-bRM1kYuNA?si=HMR8sazRVtqO-CG2

...nor volition, nor sentience. 💯

💯AI can only reflect back what it already knows. It cannot think in the abstract

Yeah, for the moment. No telling when it might extend beyond that function. But extend it will, barring some civilisational catastrophe.

in most cases it is just a bad search engine. The abstraction added on top makes difficult to verify the sources of the knowledge and manage dissidious around subjects.

I heard someone call it a word calculator, and that made a ton of sense to me.

If you're good at using search engines and a fast reader, it's a bad search engine.