[joe_the_user]

Indeed, but that kind of describes the gulf between current language processing and present AI. Present AI generates tokens that seem to have meaning or seem like an appropriate response to a statement but where it become evident after 2-3 paragraphs, there's no substantial relation to either underlying meaning or underlying goals.

Part of this is "underlying meaning" is an intuitive way to describe things but whatever is underlying here is more tenuous than a classical logic/GOFAI model of the world but more "solid" than a long, clever stream of associations.