[supermdguy]

To add to this, each token is generated by going through its network once. So there's no way computationally for it to do any reasoning or follow an algorithm. That said though it's impressive how much its able to accomplish without any procedural reasoning.

[abathur]

I've taken to saying that the ~emergent behavior here underscores what an incredible bootstrap written language is.

I think of it as a savant-esque capability. A glimpse of what we might be like if some slices of our language/memory faculties were turned up to 1111 while others are completely absent.