When you really think about it, generative AI is literally nothing but a translator.

But literally in every form it really only does some type of translation and compression. It's a pattern compressing tool that translates between human speech and basically any other data medium that can be described with speech:

Text to pixel arrangement, english language spanish, english to python or javascript, text to data waveform, etc.

There is no intelligence, logic, or reason -- and never was, it is simply a linguistic converter that relates one piece of data to another piece of data through natural language.