we do extensive amount of pattern matching and drop enormous amount of sensory input very quickly because we expect patterns and assume a lot about our surroundings.

Unlearning this is a hard skill to pick up. There are many versions of training from martial arts to meditation that attempt to achieve this .

Point is that alone is not sufficient, the other core component is reasoning and understanding , transformers and learning on data is insufficient .

Parrot and few other animals can imitate human speech very well , that doesn’t mean they are understanding the speech or constructing .

Don’t get me wrong, i am not saying it is not useful, it is , but this attribution of reasoning and understanding to models that foundationally has no such building block is just being impressed by a speaking parrot