[WJW]

The problem is that we don't even know what might be there to understand. Since it is pretty much unknown how humans think (from a brain processing perspective), we also don't really know if the things we see in LLMs are just dumber versions of human thought processes or if they are qualitatively different.

[kaba0]

LLMs literally can’t compute any complex algorithm, they can’t simulate different steps in chess to get which version is best, nor execute some non-trivial algorithm.

They are nowhere near close to human intelligence.