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Free will exists and you feel it every time you're dieting, lol, or restricting yourself in any way for higher reasons. It escapes the realm of words because it's fundamental to our existence, you can't argue against it in good faith, it can simply be denied the same way you could deny the rising of the sun... And, again, I think you're confused. Okay, could a calculator with all its parts be considered intelligent/more intelligent than us simply because it can make calculations faster and with more accuracy? A computer? It's the same principle. We simply haven't made anything that 1) understands the world around it in any way 2) has volition. We have made a code eating, code spitting machine that works when we want it to, that's all. It's pretty impressive, it's not intelligent, it's not free willed and it has no consciousness. It's "intelligent" the way a calculator could be, or a set of pulleys could be considered "strong".
Lol, "free will exists because I think it exists" is not an argument.
Computers have long been limited to not being more intelligent than very complicated calculators, because they had no good way of solving fuzzy pattern matching problems, like ingesting arbitrary data and automatically learning and pulling out patterns from it. This famous xkcd points that out: https://xkcd.com/1425/
The entire recent surge in AI is being driven because AI algorithms that model our neurons do exactly that.
LLMs contain some understanding of the world, or they wouldn't be able to do what they do, but yes I would agree. That doesn't meant we won't or can't get there though. Right now many leading edge AI researchers are specifically trying to build world models as opposed to LLMs that do have an understanding of the world around them.
No, this is a reductive description of how even LLMs work. They are not just copying and pasting. They are truly combining and synthesizing information in new and transformative ways, in a similar way that humans do. Yes, we can regurgitate some of that book we read, but most of what we get from it is an impression / general knowledge that we then combine with other knowledge, just like an LLM.
Language is literally the basis for almost all of our knowledge, it's wild to flatly deny that a multi billion collection of simulated neurons that are trained on language could not possibly have any intelligence or understanding of the world.