[the8472]

> When I say "I have a laptop in front of me," I am describing an understanding of something that is being experienced (sensed).

I would ascribe that to two factors a) you have a more immediate, interactive interface to the physical world than GPT does, which is limited to a textual proxy and b) GPT naturally is not a human-level intelligence, it is still of very limited complexity so its understanding more akin to that of a parrot trying to understand its owner's speech patterns. It can infer a tiny bit of semantics and mimic the rest. The ratio is a continuum.

> As for real world uses, social media spam and mass propaganda seems like the most obvious one.

fragments full sentence completion useful maybe.