i think "Chomsky gets it right by accident" is maybe better than "Chomsky gets it wrong". "do LLMs think" and "do submarines swim" is kind of the same question

i think "Chomsky gets it right by accident" is maybe better than "Chomsky gets it wrong". "do LLMs think" and "do submarines swim" is kind of the same question - it's a fixation on terminology rather than results. submarines accomplish something useful, and you can either quibble about what terminology to apply to that, or you can use them for the things they're good for and not be super bothered about what it's called. it seems to me that humans have a vested interest in defining thinking as an innately human thing, so it's impossible to build a truly thinking machine, because if you do we'll simply find a new definition of thinking that excludes your machine.