Your token gets me thinking... Edward DeBono (Six Thinking Hats) has been a thing in business circles for creative thinking for years, and one could very easily

Your token gets me thinking... Edward DeBono (Six Thinking Hats) has been a thing in business circles for creative thinking for years, and one could very easily make the argument that the process it describes is just as you state - take a token, now process the token through a series of steps that morph that token in predefined ways in order to generate a novel outcome. Maybe this ChatGPT stuff is "smarter" than I've been giving it credit.