alt Hacker NewsThere'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...).
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.