Thus means all you can say about me is that I'm a black box emitting words. But that's not what I think people mean when they say "world salad generator" or "s

Thus means all you can say about me is that I'm a black box emitting words. But that's not what I think people mean when they say "world salad generator" or "stochastic parrot" or "broca area emulator". The idea there is that it's indeed possible to create a machinery that is surprisingly efficient at producing natural language that sounds good and flows well, perhaps even following complex grammatical rules, and yet not being at all able to reason