As the Portal companion cube taught us, we will anthropomorphize whatever the hell we want.

I know they are just next token predictors. However, Our learning also started with that only. They moved from Alphabets to sentences. Intelligence is what AGI stands for and that's still in distant future. But, we need to push them for AGI. That's the ultimate goal of humanity for now. Finger Crossed for AGI in our lifetime.

After that Space colonization will come.

At least later-era Wittgenstein would disagree with you.