[cjbprime]

It clearly knows what words are. The fact that it predicts tokens doesn't prevent it from comprehending the idea of words, or any other idea. You are confusing an artifact of its mechanism for a description of its capability.

> It "knows" nothing about words

Care to respond to this?

Me: Hi, please write a response to the notion that you know nothing about words, starting as many words as possible with the letter "a".

GPT-4:

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