LLMs are basically Dissociated Press, but with deeper layers of statistics for a better function approximation than a simple Markov chain. It's really doing the

LLMs are basically Dissociated Press, but with deeper layers of statistics for a better function approximation than a simple Markov chain. It's really doing the same thing though: pick the next sequence of characters that best follows the foregoing characters. Not something I'd trust as a "source of truth". Maybe a neat idea generator. And some of the deep learning algorithms can identify patterns that humans might miss -- patterns that could reveal useful insight. But they're not doing the knowledge work.