[not2b]

It is stringing together phrases and sentences that appear in the training data. After digesting gigabytes of text, it has built up structures that represent grammar and semantics to some degree, so you'll find very coherent sentences, because those sentences were originally written by humans or pasted together from sentences written by humans. It's amazing that it works as well as it does.

[umanwizard]

I disagree. The essay in question develops a coherent argument over several paragraphs. It’s not just disjointed individual sentences.

The argument about overthinking vs creative thinking isn’t particularly _great_, but it’s certainly intelligible.