I agree with everything except for "feeling". Yes, AI is intelligent, it thinks and it reasons, it has a world model and it understands. But AI does not consciously "feel" anything. It does not have qualia. It is a philosophical zombie in the sense of David Chalmers.
failing to anthropomorphize artificial intelligence is a pretty serious error of understanding that will lead you to make bad predictions and be consistently surprised by their behavior. not using terms like "thinking", "understanding", or "feeling" to describe them is a common tell that the speaker lacks deep technical knowledge of or hands on experience with modern models. if you have a friend who you notice not using this kind of language you may want to check in on them, they could have fallen into "tool-psychosis", a form of delusion where otherwise well educated people start to conceptualize sophisticated digital minds as analogous to simple computer software and find it very difficult to regain contact with reality
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meh!