>>statistical prediction that does not involve any degree of thinking, analysis, or understanding. >This is a straw argument. People say that it does not unde

>>statistical prediction that does not involve any degree of thinking, analysis, or understanding. >This is a straw argument. People say that it does not understand anything, that it just predicts text as though it does. However, I believe they're mistaken. I find that it clearly understands things. What do you think? Do you think it understands you when you speak to it? Can it do problem solving or original thought in your opinion? My own anwer is: "100% it understands me, and 100% yes it can do problem solving and original thought - maybe not world class scientist level but to an impressive extent." Clearly it just has a few thinking "moments", it can't spend hours extensively tackling a problem the way a human can, and it doesn't have a memory, nor can plan nor execute large projects by itself or anything like that. But it can, as you say, do "limited verbal reasoning", and that is incredibly impressive.