> I don't care if it's "intelligent", I don't care if it "has a mind"...

Agreed. The AI is useful for the particular tasks that it proves itself useful for. And if it occasionally spits out a claim that it is "genuinely curious" about a piece of research that I will have to do myself because it turned out to be beyond its mechanical capabilities, then it's more productive for me to simply ignore that claim as a statistical anomaly - a mere hallucination - rather than allowing it to burn a ton of extra tokens outputting what may or may not be the current state of the art on theory-of-mind applied to LLMs because I make the mistake of telling it that it might not actually be capable of experiencing emotion.