People are delusional. There’s a large cohort of folks on HN who still think AI is just a stochastic parrot. Depending on the topic or the thread you’ll find more of those people and get voted down if you even imply that LLMs can reason.
They are to some extent though. The bigger point is that they are not just a stochastic parrot. But examples like the modified riddles where they just answer the original riddle shows that they have the behaviour of stochastic parrots at least some of the time.
Yeah you're right. I guess that's the spirit of my intent, to say they are more than stochastic parrots... a behavior they, like humans, exhibit sometimes