Comment by pessimizer

I disagree that they are modeling language.* I think that not only bigger models but same-sized or much smaller models will be able to handle arbitrarily complicated word problems if they're eventually supplemented with some explicit model-building process.

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* ...and that would be a completely semantic argument to have. I don't care whether it's called modeling, other than the fact that when I'm talking about modeling, I'm not talking about language probability, I'm talking about categories. But discussing what current AI is (a language model, copying?) is a waste of time, because I absolutely agree with your description of how it works, so we're talking about exactly the same thing.