You're further magically blind to this operational fact being weaponized as a trope for furthering anti-ai sentiment (i.e. that it's a political dogwhistle at this point), and to thus you participating in that every time you repeat it?
Safe to say there's a cognitive block and until he tries to approach this topic in good faith he'll simply never understand. Lol.
I really don't know what's so interesting about auto-complete or next token prediction that it captures these people's attention so much. They're so blatantly not the salient quality to these products that is of interest to the common discourse, it's just baffling.
If you don't see why then you have exactly demonstrated my point in how practitioners like you simply lack the foundational understanding in philosophy, information theory, human consciousness, human cognition, neuroscience, necessary to bridge this conceptual gap.
(Rather, it is that we know so little of how consciousness or what intelligence even is, that we cannot possibly use first principles to preclude LLMs from possessing these qualities)
You don't understand the argument, so you keep repeating first order mechanistic observations that are irrelevant. If you don't want to understand the argument, don't be surprised when people refuse to engage with you, especially when it's evident to those more knowledgeable the position you hold is the ignorant one.
If you don't believe me, download llama.cpp and see for yourself.
P.S. I write inference backends in C++ every day. The gall of people like you who figured out how to prompt Claude and think they're hot shit now is simply unbelievable.