I'm sorry, this article reads like AI slop.

It has all the hallmarks: grandiose writing ("everything changed"), the classic "It wasn't X, it was Y" (about five times in the first minute of reading the article), undue emphasis on symbolism...

All those indicators are coupled with an unpleasant level of obsession with how statistical models are "a new kind of mind"—even after claiming to "strip away the hype cycle".