See you've setup a particular set of biases on what intelligence is and put them into nice little binary boxes that don't exist.

Please show me any scientific consensus that shows an AI cannot be an independent intelligent agent? You will find this is impossible to do.

Current LLMs are really more like kids. They don't have startup independence, but they do have more than enough agency to fund themselves in neat, exciting, and dangerous situations.

And mark my words, someone will make an LLM that runs an agent when you execute the model. With enough capabilities it will become sovereign AI, no longer under human control and spreading itself around under its own 'will'.