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So you’ve claimed that they have half of my precondition for them to speak in ways that we don’t understand.

Coining a term on the fly: yes

Remembering that term and incorporating it into its mind: no.

But, beyond saying they aren’t stochastic parrots you haven’t really given anything to substantiate the idea that they aren’t (very complex) stochastic parrots.

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Coining a new term on the fly:

https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/16/ai-chatbots-developed-a-...

Remembering that term and incorporating it into its mind:

You're ignoring simple things like a growing context but also the possibility of online learning

Interesting. I don’t have a counter to the coining a new term evidence in that article. Potentially that’s solid evidence of the first aspect.

But I do have a counter for the second point:

Context is not a part of the model. It’s an ephemeral blend of input and output fed back in as input.

Online learning is potentially a way for incorporating and evolving coined terms to happen. But since that’s not what any of the models are doing, something would have to change in how we do things before it could happen.

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