See the "joke explaining" examples on Page 36 of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311 and tell me if it's just "passable garbled nonsense".
That solution has a compressed representation of half the internet.
NNs are "garabled nonesense" insofar as they try to generalise; insofar as they are search engines, they provide apparent sense by just repeating something in their database (= weights).
Google, likewise, returns joke explanations.
In it, it depicts the growth of a nascent AI from its attempts at understanding humor. The AI befriends a technician and gets the human to rate its own crafted jokes.
Eventually the AI gets really good at telling jokes, and becomes sentient as a result.
It was a very fun take on AI gaining sentience, highly recommended!