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I disagree on your definition of deep structure. We can indeed deep structure, that is my whole point, without it Finnegan’s Wake would be impossible to read. This really is something LLM’s cannot do, at least for now. And if you look at the paper I linked, if they had a world model they would not get confused on mathematics when we change the values of variables. So there seems to be plenty of things LLM’s cannot do.

And basically the burden of proof is on your side. As often is the case, discussions on AI start to resemble discussions centred on religion and belief in god. Your only line left here is “yes but you cannot prove LLM’s are conscious” - which I can’t, since proving that Unicorns do not exist is pretty senseless activity.

So basically I’d say LLM’s are stochastic parrots (or whatever term you want to use) until we can very definitely prove that they indeed think and have some sort of consciousness.