You are claiming they are statistical parrots, which I don’t think the parent poster meant.
The “statistical parrots” argument might have been compelling with GPT-3, but not with today’s models and the results of mechanistic interpretability research, which show internal representations and rudimentary world models.
I am guessing he is referring to mechanistic interpretability research like these:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16908
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03282
You are claiming they are statistical parrots, which I don’t think the parent poster meant.
The “statistical parrots” argument might have been compelling with GPT-3, but not with today’s models and the results of mechanistic interpretability research, which show internal representations and rudimentary world models.