@worik
> That was before transformers became known
Which ones?
> aside I now have a machine I can ask questions of, in natural English, it gets my meaning o r I can correct it, and get the information I want
This is not new. Search engines were doing this long before the ChatGPT hype train got started. What I'm disputing is whether elaborate autocomplete is a form of *intelligence*. You can heavily dilute the meaning of "intelligence" to include it, but I don't see any value in doing that.