The Importance of Meaning in Chat GPT

Words that mean similar things are going to show up in similar contexts. You could with enough time basically say, okay, I can see that these set of characters and that set of characters occur in very similar contexts. So they are probably related to each other in their meaning. That is one reflex of semantics that you could find in syntax if you know what you're looking for. And when people think that chat GPT is understanding them because they put in an input and they get output that they can make sense of, it seems like it's doing way more than that.