We call stuff we don’t understand but that entertains us „magic“. The best magicians are really good at misleading us, so they can surprise us and we are awed and want more. Most of their tricks are quite mundane, so we prefer to not know how they work.

That’s current „AI“/LLM explained, IMHO. Like a good magician it plays with our expectations. Unlike a magician in purely mechanical ways. We are awed. We think it must be more than it actually is. That’s my current position.