The onus is on you to prove that they do understand. One may not simply claim that a machine ‘understands’ because it appears to. Now we’re actually in the muc

The onus is on you to prove that they do understand. One may not simply claim that a machine ‘understands’ because it appears to. Now we’re actually in the much-misunderstood Occam’s razor: that the theory which introduces the fewest new assumptions is the most likely correct. The assumption that a machine ‘understands’ — is capable of such a thing — is new, and requires extreme justification.