It does system 1 thinking, it doesn't do system 2 thinking. That makes it really dumb, but can still answer a very wide range of questions it hasn't seen exact

It does system 1 thinking, it doesn't do system 2 thinking. That makes it really dumb, but can still answer a very wide range of questions it hasn't seen exact matches of since system 1 thinking can pattern match in complex ways. > it might e.g. have invented compression mechanisms better than known ones instead. You mean humans? Humans invented the transformer architecture, that is what compresses the human text to this form where semantics of text gets encoded instead of the raw words.