On what grounds? I don't think you've provided any evidence other than LLMs can't "adapt" or "learn" to show that LLMs do not show intelligence in any way. I think it's clear that there must be some emergent form of intelligence over words from just the agentic coding ability alone. I am not claiming that LLMs are intelligent, only that they display aspects of what we understand as intelligence.
> I don't think LLMs need to be intelligent to be (at least narrowly) useful
I agree! But they are more than narrowly useful, and they absolutely do not belong in the same category as random forests or genetic algorithms!
> Go collect your Nobel prize then! This is no longer a discussion grounded in reality
Once again you are being condescending while misrepresenting my position. The emergent aspects of "intelligence" have been replicated by virtue of independent LLM vendors training their own models - I am not making a stronger claim, you have misunderstood me.
Thanks for participating.