Also known as the Wittenstein Language Game — the name borrows from Wittgenstein's idea that meaning is use, and from the famous "automaton" chess machine that looked intelligent but just followed hidden rules.
A simplified look at how a real LLM actually works. Pick or edit a text above and the model builds itself — every word starts as a totally random vector, free to explore by clicking one. Then press Train (drag the Rounds slider first to run several rounds in one click) to train those vectors for real, using a small but genuine self-attention mechanism to predict the next word. Try this: click a word, check its "most similar" list, then train again and watch that list change. "Reset model" throws away training and starts over with fresh random vectors.