...what do you think your input data is anything other than signals (em waves and pressure waves)? The form of the signal whether an em wave or text or also images which llms can read doesn't change the fact that it is sensory data.
The fact that an LLM doesn't have agency is a matter of how we present them, there is no reason they can't be presented to run as autonomous agents who react to inputs of their own accord. I am not sure how this in any way implies or doesn't imply lack of thought, you will have to explain that mechanism to me since you are so sure about that. They have recorded experience and information in the training corpus, and also a working memory to gather experience, which is smaller of course.
Again what are your experiences? Those are sensory input data fed to a Turing computer (we are Turing computers, like any physical system is).
The fact that an LLM doesn't have agency is a matter of how we present them, there is no reason they can't be presented to run as autonomous agents who react to inputs of their own accord. I am not sure how this in any way implies or doesn't imply lack of thought, you will have to explain that mechanism to me since you are so sure about that. They have recorded experience and information in the training corpus, and also a working memory to gather experience, which is smaller of course.
Again what are your experiences? Those are sensory input data fed to a Turing computer (we are Turing computers, like any physical system is).