^ Agree. I'm convinced my 2-year-old doesn't operate on a dramatically different strategy than a LLM -- she's learned that when you are negotiating something (continued access to browse pictures on parent's phone, getting to watch TV, staying longer at a place she likes, etc), you can add on "2 minutes?" to your request and sometimes the opposing negotiator will give you some more time. She doesn't know what exactly a minute is or that specific number, but she's observed that it's correlated with getting what you want more than say, a whine. This is simple statistics and probability, in a biological neural network.

I think it's really cute how defensive and dismissive humans get (including those who profess zero supernatural beliefs) when they're trying so valiantly to write off all AI as a cheap parlor trick.