Comment by lukan

"my brain hurts trying to understand how that can be"

Well, we all are, some are just more used to it by now and take the magic for granted.

My simple explanation, those neural networks save lot's of patterns of data, and that pattern can represent an image, a code snippet, a poem, or well ... description of a circuit board. And especially the text variant, LLM's - did copy all from us - so obviously they sound like humans, when they internally debate how to do something as this is what is in their trainings data how humans sound, when doing similar tasks.

But really understanding it? Not sure if there is a single person on earth who does.