> What LLMs have taught us is a superficial grasp of language is good enough to reproduce a shocking proportion of what society has come to view as intelligent

> What LLMs have taught us is a superficial grasp of language is good enough to reproduce a shocking proportion of what society has come to view as intelligent behaviors I think that LLMs have shown that some fraction of human knowledge is encoded in the patterns of the words, and that by a "superficial grasp" of those words, you import a fairly impressive amount of knowledge without actually knowing anything. (And yes, I'm sure there are humans that do the same.) But going from that to actually knowing what the words mean is a large jump, and I don't think LLMs are at all the right direction to jump in to get there. They need at least to be paired with something fundamentally different.