There's definitely more than "just" pattern matching in there - for example, current SOTA models 'plan ahead' to simultaneously process both rough outlines of an answer and specific subject details to then combine internally for the final result (https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...).

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wood_spirit a day ago | parent [-]

Eh that is still encompassed by the term “pattern matching” in this context. Sure it’s complicated, but it’s still just a glorified spell checker.

	▲	nomel 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And we're just glorified oxidation. At some point the concept of "emergent systems" comes into play.
	▲	globnomulous a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm an LLM naysayer, and even I have no trouble seeing, or accepting, that they're much more than glorified spell checkers.