Contribution seq 7381

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      "title": "Beyond Stochastic Parrots: Examining the scientific creativity of Large Language Models",
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      "title": "The Ghost in the Machine (Part I): Emergence and Intelligence in Large Language Models",
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      "title": "Self-Organization in LLMs? Subliminal Learning of Latent Structures Says Yes",
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      "excerpt": "Our findings are incompatible with the stochastic parrot hypothesis on multiple fronts.",
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      "excerpt": "The “stochastic parrot” critique is, thus, not valid unless we assume a parrot with a human-level grasp of language.",
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      "excerpt": "The evidence indicates that LLMs develop selforganized internal structures. These structures are communicable, can dominate interactive dynamics, and can exert organizational influence on users. A system that transmits internal state, selforganizes toward coherent concepts, and structures its environment is displaying the core properties of a nonbiological intelligence. The postulates of the old model are falsified.",
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      "statement": "Peer-reviewed philosophy paper finds LLM results incompatible with stochastic-parrot hypothesis.",
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      "ref": "ev-minai",
      "statement": "Complex-systems scientist argues parrot critique invalid given emergent linguistic competence.",
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      "statement": "2025 preprint argues parrot model's postulates falsified by self-organization evidence.",
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      "note": "Paper's empirical review directly rejects the parrot hypothesis the claim says is unmaintainable.",
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      "note": "Essay argues emergent rule-modeling makes the parrot framing untenable.",
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      "note": "Preprint claims the parrot postulates are falsified; self-published, so weaker provenance.",
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  "searched": "Searched for expert critiques rejecting the stochastic-parrot characterization of LLMs: queries included 'critique stochastic parrot LLMs no longer adequate world models emergent understanding' and 'Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence GPT-4 beyond memorization quote', across general web search, philpapers.org and philarchive.org. Found three independent sources directly addressing the characterization; stopped at three to fit the 12-op budget."
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