Science is about understanding the natural world, if you want to redefine it to mean something else fine but the point still stands: LLMs do not explain anything about the natural world, specifically anything about the human language faculty. Again it's clear you do not care about this! Instead you want to spend time arguing to make sure labels you like are applied to things you like.
> the fact that you don't understand how GPT models language does not make it less of a model.
E.g. the fact that a Pythagorean theorem does not explain anything about the natural world to a slug does not make Pythagorean theorem any less sciency.
Science is not about explanatory power or else the Pythagorean theorem is not science due to the above, which is obviously nonsense.
> E.g. the fact that a Pythagorean theorem does not explain anything about the natural world to a slug does not make Pythagorean theorem any less sciency.
In fact it does! Math is not science! There is a reason it is STEM and not S
