> A human that mimics the speech of someone that does understand usually doesn't understand himself. That's not what LLMs do. They provide novel answers to que

> A human that mimics the speech of someone that does understand usually doesn't understand himself. That's not what LLMs do. They provide novel answers to questions they've never seen before, even on topics they've never heard of, that the user just made up. > To see if a human understands we ask them edge questions This is testing if there are flaws in their understanding. My dog understands a lot of things about the world, but he sometimes shows that he doesn't understand basic things, in ways that are completely baffling to me. Should I just throw my hands in the air and declare that dogs are incapable of understanding anything?