> LLMs can detect patterns at a scale that no human ever could, but patterns only get you so far.

This is asserted without evidence, and from a scientific standpoint, unjustified.

First, "detect patterns" makes it sound like a classification task, "is this a picture of a cat". But LLMs transform the input.

For example, an LLM can translate text between two languages while properly handling the names of the people described, no matter what those names are. That shows they are representing the text in a somewhat abstract way, that they can perform operations on that representation, and also convert it to useful output.

And, what I just described is the most general form of information processing algorithm. Science is not aware of any limitations in principle on such systems.

I am not saying LLMs have no limits, but "they only recognize patterns, and that is a true limit" is not a good argument.