It’s still a computer program with some state attached. That’s literally all it is. There are no linguists in the program. That it is able to distill the knowle

It’s still a computer program with some state attached. That’s literally all it is. There are no linguists in the program. That it is able to distill the knowledge and ability of a linguist by parsing ascii text into byte buffers and doing some fancy math on the bytes should be breathtaking. The sleight of hand would be if it had a mechanical Turk and there was a linguist. The fact that it collected knowledge to have knowledge and can apply that knowledge is no different than a linguist for sure, but that it’s a computer program distilling binary data into abstract concepts at the level of a grade schooler or a linguist (not sure who is more sophisticated) is mind bending. If you can’t see it, you’ve lost sight of things my friend. I hope you find it again. The world is a beautiful place.