[mikepalmer]

> ChatGPT does not think, know, care, intend, speak, commnuicate, etc.

These are statements of faith. They can't be proven or disproven by any experiment. "I think therefore I am." applies to just me. I'll never know whether you have intentionality or not. But I have faith that you do. Maybe you have faith that ChatGPT doesn't. I'm agnostic!

Chomsky's thinking is a form of vitalism: that biological matter possesses a special life force or energy that nonbiological matter doesn't. Well, vitalism eventually went out of style.