It’s text (word) manipulation based on probalistic rules derived from analyzing human-produced text. And everyone knows language is imperfect. That’s why we hav

It’s text (word) manipulation based on probalistic rules derived from analyzing human-produced text. And everyone knows language is imperfect. That’s why we have introduced logic and formalism so that we can reliably transmit knowledge. That’s why LLMs are good at translating and spellchecking. We’ve been describing the same world and almost all texts respect grammar. That’s the first things that surface. But you can extract the same rules in other way and create a program that does it without the waste of computing power. If we describe computing as solving problems, then it’s not computing because if your solution was not part of the training data, you won’t solve anything. If we describe computing as symbol manipulation, then it’s not doing a good job because the rules changes with every model and they are probabilistic. No way to get a reliable answer. It’s divination without the divine (no hint from an omniscient entity).