But here is the thing: if you showed a video generation model enough footage of people using spreadsheets, it would produce the exact same result. You type =A5+1, and a 2 appears. Not because anything was computed. Because the model knows what happens next. It has seen this scene ten thousand times. The 2 is not the output of arithmetic. It is the output of pattern recognition so thorough that it becomes indistinguishable from arithmetic. I mean, nothing really crazy if you think about it. It’s the same principle that allows ChatGPT to write you a perfectly functional Python script despite having never, in any meaningful sense, learned to program. It just knows what code looks like when it’s going well.
Nobody wrote the Matrix · Dario Farzati · 11 September 2026