@edmond1971 Yes, agreed. Neural networks are interesting stuff, and to their credit, they do attempt to reproduce human reasoning (however imperfectly).

LLMs like ChatGPT are something else altogether: instead of trying to recreate thought, proponents realised we'd reached a tipping point where it is technologically and economically feasible simply to apply massive computing power to a game of "guess the next word." Rather than building a better fly swatter like traditional AI research was trying to do, just get some dynamite and blow up the room where the fly is buzzing around — problem solved! 😕