> Your understanding of 'understanding a language' is obviously different from mine when you write that "the language model discussed above would presumably und

> Your understanding of 'understanding a language' is obviously different from mine when you write that "the language model discussed above would presumably understand Alienese just as well as it would understand English" and "language models today seem to be quite good at understanding English". > Language models don't understand any natural language, they're very good at manipulating it (and us!) in terms of continuing patterns across the scale from letter (orthography) to phrases and paragraphs of seemingly utility and correctness. Come on, chatting an hour with GPT-4 should remove all doubt that it understands you quite well. Otherwise, what would be understanding? Lest it turns out that we are stochastic parrots, too! https://www.bing.com/images/create/cornfield/64b58e89d412420eabb71fa70ea61e6c?FORM=GUH2CR https://www.bing.com/images/create/cornfield/64b58e89d412420...