it's truly just a parlor trick and people are projecting into the LLMs, it's a rorschach test
Stephen Wolfram has a lecture explaining how they actually work and explains in a understandable way, i wish it was magic more than anyone, but it isn't it's literally just putting letters in order based on probability the same way your autocorrect on the phone has forever now
dude knows his shit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WolframAlpha
Launched May 18, 2009; 16 years ago
literally the same shit happened back in the 60s with the original Eliza program