Thanks for the response! This helps me understand what you meant way better. I'm about to go to bed here, but I'll respond in the morning. Ty!

I agree with you about which objects are motive, ie, LLMs do just sit there unprompted.

> I believe that this recurrence is where "intelligence" lives - and I believe it is the difference between a thinking being and a stochastic parrot.

My objection was to this, on technical grounds: LLMs exhibit intelligence.

1. They reason in an internal type theory.

2. This type theory is meaningfully encoded from the actual data and not stochastic, eg, research on language geometry.

3. Intelligent and reasoning doesn’t entail self-motive; that’s merely a spurious correlation from the fact that until now, we’ve only known intelligence animals.

You cannot conclude something is merely a stochastic parrot because it isn’t self-motive.