> The problem with the text ones is that people think that showing them words mean that they make a model of the thing the words are describing, rather than of how those words go together.

I believe a colossal truth is that the most efficient way to learn how the words go together is to at least make some approximate model of what the words are describing. And our optimization algorithms and model architectures are good enough to find theae solutions.

I guess you are on a different level of abstraction that I am.

It's clear the art AI's have a model of "van gogh's" style, and apply it to create very unique forms of art. The neural model weight's aren't storing compressed images of van gogh, but relationships and mathematical models about a concept.