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I don't think you can handwave away what "true understanding" means, and whether or not humans would meet the bar that you are implicitly setting. I don't think GPT is AGI either, but nobody is claiming it is. The claim is that it's a step along that path, making much more sophisticated and less articulable connections between expressed concepts than was previously possible. It's not clear to me that this is an unreasonable claim.