4 ms·

When a person uses the phrase "No true understanding" I can tell they don't know what they are talking about at all. It can engage, use, explain, transform and

• methodical 3y ago
  There's a distinct difference between asking somebody to write/copy/show a complex concept and understanding it. What I don't understand (get it?) is how people are still conflating LLM's behavior with true understanding of concepts when it's obviously not the same thing.
  • tsunamifury 3y ago
    Please provide the definition of "true understanding." I think the only good argument here is that it lacks "lived experiences" and has synthetic understanding. That being said, have you been to a university? Profs seem to be entirely based on a synthetic understanding of the world anyways.
• cabalamat 3y ago
  Indeed. It can also write non-trivial code that works. There's a saying "if you can't code it, you don't know it". Conversely, if you can code it, you do understand it, at some functional level.