Comment by jcgrillo

I suppose I should have been more specific--pattern matching in text. We humans do a lot more than processing ascii bytes (or whatever encoding you like) and looking for semantically nearby ones. If "only" because we have sensors which harvest more varied data than a 1D character stream. Security researchers may get an icky feeling if they notice something or another in some system they're analyzing, which leads eventually to something exploitable. Or they may beat their head against a problem all day at work on a Friday, go to the bar afterwards, wake up with a terrible hangover Saturday morning, go out to brunch, and while stepping off the bus on the way to the zoo after brunch an epiphany strikes like a flash and the exploit unfurls before them unbidden like a red carpet. LLMs do precisely none of this. And then we can go into their deficiencies--incapable of metacognition, incapable of memory, incapable of reasoning (despite the marketing jargon), incapable of determining factual accuracy, incapable of estimating uncertainty, ...