Comment by thisoneisreal

This whole thing is an example of why the philosophy of this stuff is so fun. The trick here is buried in the word "is".

Just for kicks, I actually put your sentence into an LLM. The response was along the lines of, "Your query was incomplete and about medical knowledge, so I need to be careful. There is currently no cure..." and then goes on to do a decent job of summarizing existing treatment approaches for metastatic breast cancer.

What's so interesting about this is your notion of prediction here is divining the answer in reality, i.e. finding a cure for breast cancer. But its notion of prediction is determining the next logical sequence of words given its training set, so it produced a block of useful and context-relevant text, but not what you actually care about. This leads into the much broader question of what do we mean by "intelligence," which forms do these things have and not have, etc. etc. If nothing else it's all very fun to think about and debate.