"Understanding" is meaningless. All that matters is "does the model produce good output?" People are excited about AI now because we've crossed over boundary

"Understanding" is meaningless. All that matters is "does the model produce good output?" People are excited about AI now because we've crossed over boundary with generative models, allowing them to be used in much more interesting ways. Previous machine learning applications were mostly regression and classification problems in fancy clothing. ChatGPT is the "Newcomen engine" moment for AI. We've still got the AI equivalent of railroads, cars and jets in our future. There's absolutely zero chance that as we evolve these models and link them together it isn't transformative in the way we do work and run society.