The rewiring of their brain has somehow instilled knowledge, but that's very different from how you would say normally teach a student. What's weird is that now you give them a new math test and they get an 80%. They do better than the 50% that they did even though they haven't seen these answers before. It can do so much more than just auto completing. In fact, there was a recent thing where I think it was Microsoft who was hooking some of their large language models up to robots and trying to get them to direct robots.
They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking tech companies. "They," of course, are the latest versions of AI, which herald, according to neuroscientist and writer Erik Hoel, a species-level threat to humanity. Listen as he tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.