LLMs sometimes look like one of East Asian input programs from 2000 and before, just pushed up to absurdity.
East Asian languages are typed out as pronunciations as intermediate form, and small GUI app called IME dots and dashes that pronunciations into readable texts. Older ones only looked behind and converted only what aren't yet converted. Newer implementations make predictions too, and back in flip phones era I saw people playing with IME predictions like they would with Ouija boards.
LLMs take already dotted and dashed full text, convert it down to intermediate form of gibberish tokens, and recursively predict next tokens. The only differences that sets an LLM apart IME are that they're way slower, more precise, and that it's not trained to be an IME engine.
But overall it's almost the exact same thing, East Asian predictive text Ouija board in a fancy new name.
I can't see the slightest reason for you to raise the topic you raised in this post's context. You could have made your broad point with a thousand other examples. I'm down voting you on trolling/derailing.
