[trhway]

you're listing today's deficiencies. ChatGPT didn't exist several years ago, and will be a history in several years.

>to replace literally critical thinking of all things

Nobody forces you to replace. The ChatGPT would just be doing it better and faster as it is a pretty simple thing once the toolset gets built up which is happening as we speak.

>it’s mostly pattern matching

it is one component of ChatGPT. The other is the emergent (as a result of simple brute-force looking training) model over which that pattern-matching is performed.