There are already several comments here that put the word "understanding" in quotation marks or italics. It is beginning to be used in the same way that "consci

There are already several comments here that put the word "understanding" in quotation marks or italics. It is beginning to be used in the same way that "consciousness" used to be used, as a kind of ill-defined catch-all for something that separates humans from machines. Yes, there are clearly failures in reasoning, binding, and coherence in many of the examples here. There are many other cases where it does ok with simple reasoning tasks, maintains cohesion over many paragraphs, and successfully creates formal or generic text such as poetry, code, stylistic imitation. I don't think that everyone who does research in the field would agree with your comment, or the article. More and more often I see people saying "real researchers in the field" know that GPT-3 has no understanding or reasoning ability, but I know people researching in the field who disagree with that.