Are Large Language Models Really AI?

And if not what would or could be? (This assumes that we are intelligent.)

Sub questions:
1, Is self awareness needed for intelligence?
2, Is conciseness needed for intelligence?
3, Would creativity be possible without intelligence?
Feel free to ask more.

I say they aren't. To me they are search engines that have leveled up once or twice but haven't evolved.

They use so much electricity because they have to sift through darn near everything for each request. Intelligence at a minimum would prune search paths way better than LLMs do. Enough to reduce power consumption by several orders of magnitude.

After all if LLMs aren't truly AI then whatever is will suck way more power unless they evolve.

I don't think that LLM's hallucinations are disqualifying. After all I and many of my friends spent real money for hallucinations.