The algorithms that figured out how to predict the next word better and better have a meaning that is not purely predicting the next word. Like you see humans chipping flint hand axes, but that is not all that is going on inside the humans. There's there's causal machinery unseen. And in particular, planning, the process of being like, here's a point in the world,. How do I get there? Is a central piece of machinery that appears in chipping flINT hand axes and outwitting other humans. But even if you are not a cognitive scientist, you can appreciate in principle that what you see as the output does not everything that there is. Thought that is simulated

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