The stochastic parrots thing is already old. It might have made sense at one point, but now that the parrots are solving millennium problems, I think people have to admit things have changed.

He is right that the AI giants would like a bit of regulatory capture.

It can still be stochastic over more complex token graph traversals, but it is still stochastic at the core. Anyone who uses them daily knows how often they make the most absurd assumptions and false statements, and show the limit of engineered intelligence