I think AI is neat.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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The reason it's dangerous is because there are a significant number of jobs and people out there that do exactly that. Which can be replaced....
This post isn't true, LLMs do have an understanding of things.
SELF-RAG: Improving the Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models through Self-Reflection
Chess-GPT's Internal World Model
POKÉLLMON: A Human-Parity Agent for Pokémon Battle with Large Language Models
Language Models Represent Space and Time
Whilst everything you linked is great research which demonstrates the vast capabilities of LLMs, none of it demonstrates understanding as most humans know it.
This argument always boils down to one's definition of the word "understanding". For me that word implies a degree of consciousness, for others, apparently not.
To quote GPT-4:
You are moving goal posts
"understanding" can be given only when you reach like old age as a human and if you meditated in a cave
That's my definition for it
No one is moving goalposts, there is just a deeper meaning behind the word "understanding" than perhaps you recognise.
The concept of understanding is poorly defined which is where the confusion arises, but it is definitely not a direct synonym for pattern matching.