I do dare to equate them. Sorry if it offends you but I'm not religious or spiritual. Thought, reasoning, consciousness... are just the product of the computing power of the human meatware. There's no reason that computing couldn't be done by electronics instead of chemistry. Are we there yet? I don't think so. Will we? Who knows. Equating llms to an autocorrect is like equating a lightbulb to a modern computer.

And answering your first two paragraphs: no they aren't doing great at that. In fact search engines have been going to shit in the last few years. And no it's not ai's fault, I would say it's seo's and upper management's.