Hey dpark.
I quite literally created and productized predictive linguistics and behavioral vectors at Google.
If you had stopped to consider what I explained; you’d understand that it’s the process of turning random garbage into increasingly acceptable outputs.
Ie training the monkeys.
The insight you are missing is the rule of networked scale. It turns out that any reactive node scaled enough can form sophisticated predictive system given reward over a training topography, even if it starts out at garbage or is literally made of monkeys.
So it is garbage. And you can turn garbage into semi-intelligence.