I don’t think the language point is particularly revelatory - we’ve lived with quite effective machine translation for a long while now. But it’s certainly unex

I don’t think the language point is particularly revelatory - we’ve lived with quite effective machine translation for a long while now. But it’s certainly unexpected that large swathes of complex knowledge can be gathered and represented this way (as patterns of patterns of patterns). Consequentially, ChatGPT is a still a fairly uninteresting pattern matching machine in itself. It has very static knowledge and no way to reason or ponder or evaluate or experiment between that knowledge and the world beyond, as anyone trying to use ChatGPT to get ‘correct’ answers and not just vaguely cromulent ideas is finding. We’ve perhaps proven that machines can know what we can know, but can’t think as we can think. I would not bet against the latter being solved in my lifetime though.