If you look at my comment history you will see that I don't think LLMs are nearly as intelligent as rats or pigeons. Rats and pigeons have an intuitive understanding of quantity and LLMs do not.
I don't know what "the lowest form of intelligence" is, nobody has a clue what cognition means in lampreys and hagfish.
I don't know what "the lowest form of intelligence" is, nobody has a clue what cognition means in lampreys and hagfish.