You should give it a try. Tao is a wonderful person and is trying to help humanity.

Out-of-hand dismissal of Terence Tao is certainly a take.

And the term "artificial intelligence (AI)" has been the name of the field for 70 years and counting. If anything, "LLM" is a misnomer that's been lingering around since 2018-19. When the term was coined, these systems were relatively small, experimental, and could only produce impractical facsimiles of the English language. This is obviously no longer the case today.