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by famouswaffles 944 days ago
Late reply to this -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233029

But yeah we agree that GPT isn't necessarily doing things like how a human does and that it doesn't necessarily understand things as well as a human.

I guess I just primarily took issue on the use of "Understanding". Understanding is a spectrum, not binary.

In school, in the workplace or whatever, there's a big range of performance and capability even in the range we confess understanding to. We say that both the C and A student(and everyone in-between) have understanding of the material, at least enough to be useful for that domain.

So what can I say, I use the same standard with the machines. It understands chess now, even if not perfectly.