This perspective is interesting, but I don't think it refutes some of the key elements of concerns that Bender and colleagues have put forward. I really like th

This perspective is interesting, but I don't think it refutes some of the key elements of concerns that Bender and colleagues have put forward. I really like the "Thai Library" thought experiment [1], and I encourage anyone to think through what you'd actually try to do, how you'd learn, and what you'd know or understand at the end. I can totally imagine that a sufficiently determined human in that scenario could develop many skills needed to generate continuations based on input texts, and use a different mix of skills for different situations, in a way that mirrors the setup described here. But ... would that change whether you actually "understand" Thai, or "know" the contents of texts you had previously processed? [1] https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83 https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-t...