The "stochastic parrot" crowd keeps repeating "it's just a token predictor!" like that somehow makes any practical difference whatsoever. Thing is, if it's a token predictor that consistently correctly predicts tokens that give the correct answer to, say, novel logical puzzles, then it is a reasoning token predictor, with all that entails.
Then please go ahead and explain how something can solve novel logical puzzles (i.e. ones that are not present in its training set) without some capacity for reasoning. You're claiming that it is "generating texts that looks like ..." - so what is the "..." in this case? I posit that the word that should be placed there is solution, and then you need to explain why that is not ipso facto a demonstration of the ability to reason.
