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First, I hope that my estimate of hours input into my brain didn't come across as boastful. I'm still working on the balancing act of stating my experience so people get my point of view without sounding arrogant. In this case, I should have also said that sometimes thinking about anything long enough can sometimes cause some of the wonder to fade. Luckily, though, for me, the curiosity remains, just focused in different directions.

Second, your comment above covers the ground I was referring to regarding deduction. It seems like we're on the same page. The main difference may be where one draws the lines. When I said "by themselves sequence to sequence models..." I was excluding algorithms that chain language models together in various ways.

Not too long ago, when people said "AI" that tended to refer to algorithms like forward chaining over a set of facts.