Comment by bawana

I once heard that a roomful of monkeys with typewriters given infinite time could type out the works of shakespeare. I dont think that's true any more than the random illumiination of pixels on a screen could eventually generate a picture.

OTOH, consider LLMs as a roomful of monkeys that can communicate to each other, look at words,sentences and paragraphs on posters around the room with a human in the room that gives them a banana when they type out a new word, sentence or paragraph.

You may eventually get a roomful of monkeys that can respond to a new sentence you give them with what seems an intelligent reply. And since language is the creation of humans, it represents an abstraction of the world made by humans.