It's not the first time this has been a problem to accurately specify either. Throughout history animals proved nigh impossible to classify in these terms and w

It's not the first time this has been a problem to accurately specify either. Throughout history animals proved nigh impossible to classify in these terms and were considered so many things, from something that's intertwined with nature as a hive mind of sorts, to complete automatons by Descartes, and later to beings that are mostly completely identical to us by Darwin. I suppose it's also an interesting juxtaposition, animals can do everything but talk, while LLMs can do nothing but talk.