Even if it did learn microscopic physics, the knowledge wouldn’t be of use for most text predictions because the input doesn’t specify/determine microscopic state information. It is forced by the partially observed state to simulate at a higher level of abstraction than microphysics—it must treat the input as probabilistic evidence for unobserved variables that affect time evolution.
That’s correct.
Even if it did learn microscopic physics, the knowledge wouldn’t be of use for most text predictions because the input doesn’t specify/determine microscopic state information. It is forced by the partially observed state to simulate at a higher level of abstraction than microphysics—it must treat the input as probabilistic evidence for unobserved variables that affect time evolution.
See this comment for slightly more elaboration.