[ExI] Are We Stochastic Parrots, Too?

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Are We Stochastic Parrots, Too? What LLMs Teach Us About Intelligence
And Understanding.
By Tommaso Dorigo | October 24th 2025

<https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/are_we_stochastic_parrots_too_what_llms_teach_us_about_intelligence_and_understanding-257611>
Quote:
There is nothing magical in intelligence, and there is nothing special
in my typing on this keyboard a few sentences and calling myself
intelligent while I do that. I have been assembling words in a way no
different from that LLMs do. Give LLMs perceptual inputs and a measure
of agency, and they will become much harder to dismiss as mere
imitators of human intelligence — but that would be an evolution, not
a quantum leap.
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I asked a couple of AIs - they didn't disagree.  :)
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