I think we are talking past each other but this has been entertaining.
I'd say anybody who writes "the LLM just produces characters with some stochastic process, therefore it's not intelligent or correct" is making an implicit argument about the way the LLM works and the way the human brain works. There might even be an implicit argument about how intelligence works.
They are not making the argument that you can't make up statistical models to describe a box, a human generated text, or an expert human opinion. But that seems to be the claim you are responding to.
I'd say anybody who writes "the LLM just produces characters with some stochastic process, therefore it's not intelligent or correct" is making an implicit argument about the way the LLM works and the way the human brain works. There might even be an implicit argument about how intelligence works.
They are not making the argument that you can't make up statistical models to describe a box, a human generated text, or an expert human opinion. But that seems to be the claim you are responding to.