[LeroyRaz]

I'm not sure what you mean?

Saying we understand the training process of LLMs does not mean that LLMs are not super impressive. They are shining testiments to the power of statistical modelling / machine learning. Arbitrarily reclassifying them as something else is not useful. It is simply untrue.

There is nothing wrong with being impressed by statistics... You seem to be saying that statistics is interesting and there for to say that LLMs are statistics dismissed them. I think perhaps you are just implicitly biased against statistics! :p