A stochastic parrot may be a good model of what a human does when you force them to react and give their first impressions on something. But there is more to co

A stochastic parrot may be a good model of what a human does when you force them to react and give their first impressions on something. But there is more to cognition than that. People have some emergent machinery for symbolic reasoning in their brains. When they don't just react, they can continue working on an idea and improve it. When it comes to humans, there is no fundamental difference between training a model and using it. People continue to learn all the time, which allows them to build models of new things and to update their existing models. People can also interact with the outside world on their own initiative. When you combine this with the ability to learn and reason, it may transform the internal models from arbitrary mathematical constructs to increasingly accurate models of the outside world. Nothing in this discussion is particularly new. It's just the Chinese Room Argument from decades ago, except that this time it's not a thought experiment. While a static Chinese Room can fool humans and be useful for various purposes, a general intelligence also needs other mechanisms.