Raw LLM Responses

You're using a philosophical lense to interpret a hard science. It's not a fair method of interpretation. The main difference here is intelligence, and specifically animal intelligence, learns by watching, hearing, etc etc. A computer "ai" has it's model tuned externally. In other words, if we opened up the brain of a child and directly wired their neurons, and then if they made a mistake rewired their neurons again hoping to get the right outcome, would that be intelligence? That's essentially how the "neural networks" of "ai" work. They are created and tuned, and once they reach an acceptable level of accuracy the tuning stops.