I don't think "templates" is a good descriptor to use here, since the number of required templates is beyond any reasonable number. Just taking 10,000 words, th

I don't think "templates" is a good descriptor to use here, since the number of required templates is beyond any reasonable number. Just taking 10,000 words, there are 10^40 possible ten-word sentences. A ridiculous percentage of those are nonsense, but even if that fraction is 0.000000000000000001%, that leaves 10^20 sentences to template for, which no modern computer can accommodate for. I'm not sure what a better metaphor is; each thing I consider ends up defaulting back to what a ML model actually is, without really "metaphoring" at all. But not templates.