Emergent in this case means that the property is not present in the individual elements but shows up in the whole. There was no hint ahead of time that (for exa

Emergent in this case means that the property is not present in the individual elements but shows up in the whole. There was no hint ahead of time that (for example) training neural networks on hundreds of billions of images would create qualitatively different results than training on millions, but here we are.