Just read the interaction, and honestly you are the one being obtuse and insulting with “go to school” and stuff like that. Like the other guy insulted you by having an opinion. You disagree? Fair. But man, what a horrible way to discuss.

And I think his arguments are better than yours. He’s talking about intelligence and you keep talking about being alive. Scientists and philosophers don’t even agree how to define and confine intelligence, or even what being alive is (see viruses). Claiming that computers can’t be intelligent is quite the statement. Is being carbon based instead of silicon a requirement? I don’t think LLMs will ever be intelligent, but who’s to say that another form of computing won’t? What if they simulate exactly a brain and it’s inputs? You could argue it’s not alive, but definitely intelligent.

You could have your opinion, but don’t pretend you have the answer.