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Perhaps you calculator understands arithmetic indeed! Surely it can't talk to you about how it feels about it's understanding of arithmetic, well because arith
by ithkuil 4y ago
Perhaps you calculator understands arithmetic indeed!
Surely it can't talk to you about how it feels about it's understanding of arithmetic, well because arithmetic is all it understands. Not language, nor introspection.
Perhaps we don't understand what understanding means.
Or at least we can't really talk about our understanding of understanding, well be because being human is all what we know of.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago>> Perhaps you calculator understands arithmetic indeed! Well, perhaps it does. But that depends on a definition of "understands" that we can all agree covers humans, calculators, and large language models, alike. And what about cats and dogs and other mammals? Surely whales "understand" something, say, about fishing, even if they can't do arithmetic? How about insects? Does a cockroach understand anything? To be honest, I doubt we can have some kid of a priori definition of "understands" capable of convering all of the above. I think we have to wait for a lot longer until we can really say for sure what "understand" even means in humans, in the first place, let alone everything else.