As an aside, I had a very interesting exchange of ideas with Claude last week about Christianity and the Bible. I have shared that conversation with friends who are deeply knowledgeable about the subject and they are all amazed at the responses.
In you case, the only way you can actually see what an AI platform can do is to test it yourself. An opinion from a distance is, well, not worth much.
It’s fact.
Please see https://medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/how-large-language-models-work-91c362f5b78f and specifically this image:
Again, this is on a VERY basic level. Most commercial LLMs have billions of parameters build on a corpus of the internet or subsamples.
In the end, it’s a lot of matrix algebra, weights, and regression functions. It’s not magic, but the hipsters, VC reps, and tech bros would like us to think otherwise.