[crooked-v]

There's definitely more than "just" pattern matching in there - for example, current SOTA models 'plan ahead' to simultaneously process both rough outlines of an answer and specific subject details to then combine internally for the final result (https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...).

[wood_spirit]

Eh that is still encompassed by the term “pattern matching” in this context. Sure it’s complicated, but it’s still just a glorified spell checker.

[globnomulous]

I'm an LLM naysayer, and even I have no trouble seeing, or accepting, that they're much more than glorified spell checkers.

[nomel]

And we're just glorified oxidation. At some point the concept of "emergent systems" comes into play.