You keep saying "predicting the next token" like it's somehow a small task, but predicting the future by modeling the problem space is fundamentally what intell

You keep saying "predicting the next token" like it's somehow a small task, but predicting the future by modeling the problem space is fundamentally what intelligence is. "The next token" can be influenced by anything from facts about the world to quirks in the way humans think. For it to perform at anything like the level it does, it must have built models of all those things.