I like the term "stochastic parrots" although as your article shows, it isn't entirely fair. See https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3442188.3445922

That said, human intelligence derives from the ability to ask and answer questions over and over again. Answers beget questions. Judgment chooses among right answers. Then the questioner should take responsibility for their work: true or false? Then the process reiterates...

Along the way, we are constantly retraining our pattern recognition; aka, education, formal or not. Common sense is an incomplete set of learnings that are part of system 1 (to use Kahneman's terms). It has limitations. For instance, it is obvious that humans are not lemurs and so we did not evolve from them; it is obvious that a tiny creature you can't even see cannot possibly kill animals as big as elephants or blue whales. Not to mention that quantum physics must be BS—just take a look.

Common sense doesn't help a physicist with the Standard Model, but it is what gets her to her laboratory in the morning.

Based on my reading, including your article, LLMs can possibly achieve the level of human common sense thinking. But they lack the ability to formulate questions and judge the answers. And especially, take responsibility for the veracity of the answers.

Great dialogue in the replies, by the way. Keep up the great work!