> But an LLM is that man And the common rebuttal is that the system -- the room, the rules, the man -- understands chinese. The system in this case is the LLM

> But an LLM is that man And the common rebuttal is that the system -- the room, the rules, the man -- understands chinese. The system in this case is the LLM. The system understands. It may be a weak level of understanding compared to human understanding. But it is understanding nonetheless. Difference in degree, not kind.