[ukj]

But do humans "really" understand?

When you claim that you "understand" what is it really that you are claiming about yourself? Is the claim testbale/falsifiable?

I know humans understands me because they behave in a way that 's congruent with my expectations of "understanding". e.g compliance, cooperation etc.

But then Alexa also complies and cooperates with me.

I also know when humans don't understand - when they are combative, uncooperative, argumentative etc. even when I say incredibly sensible and obvious things.

[kilgnad]

We can't even define the word. It's just a point of comparison.

Humans are doing this sort of thing we don't fully comprehend called understanding. The main question here is that if LLMs are doing something that can be described as isomorphic to the concept of understanding.

Hence what I mean by point of comparison.