The latest LLMs are simply multiplying and adding various numbers together... Babylonians were doing that 4000 years ago.
But on clay tables, not in semi-conductive electron prisons separated by one-atom-thick walls.
Slight difference to those methods, wouldn't you agree?
You are just a lot of interactions of waves. All meaning is assigned. I prefer to think of this like the Goedel generator that found new formal expressions for the Principia - because we have a way of indexing concept-space, there's no telling what we might find in the gaps.