https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence

I know you’re not a fan of the dictionary, but they are the authority on words and their meanings.

Before you get too excited about definition 3 I suggest you familiarize yourself with what it means to “compute” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compute you’ll notice repeated use of the word “determine”. LLMs are by nature “non-deterministic” or in other words “incapable of determining / incapable of making a determination”.

A computer is deterministic

An LLM is a probabilistic next-word-guessing machine / software as a service