It is impossible to accurately imitate the action of intelligent beings without being intelligent. To believe otherwise is to believe that intelligence is a vacuous property.
>It is impossible to accurately imitate the action of intelligent beings without being intelligent.
Wait what? So a robot who is accurately copying the actions of an intelligent human, is intelligent?
An unintelligent device can accurately imitate the action of intelligent beings within a given scope, in the same way an actor can accurately imitate the action of a fictional character in a given scope (the stage or camera) without actually being that character.
If the idea is that something cannot accurately replicate the entirety of intelligence without being intelligent itself, then perhaps. But that isn't really what people talk about with LLMs given their obvious limitations.
So the actors who portrait great thinkers are great thinkers?