if you'd like to take a quote out of context in order to equate two different technologies, you just go to town.
OP was using the word autocomplete as a pejorative, but it's actually not and it is the strategy LLMs are pursuing.
The example that Ilya's was using: If you feed the LLMs a mystery murder novel and it is able to autocomplete "The killer is" from just clues, you have achieved intelligence.
Nothing wrong with autocomplete being AGI.
If you're going to speak so abstractly you really lose the forest for the trees IMO. I do like the murder mystery example
That's actually a good analogy with autocomplete. A plane reactor still measures itself in "horse"-power. It's technically a very very powerful horse. Trying to get better and better horses got us here. Like GPT-4 is a very very powerful GMail-like autocomplete. :)