[hatthew]

I am slowly coming around to the idea that nobody should ever use the word "understand" in relation to LLMs, simply because everyone has their own definition of "understand", and many of these definitions disagree, and people tend to treat their definition as axiomatic. I have yet to see any productive discussion happen once anyone disagrees on the definition of "understand".

So, what word would you propose we use to mean "an LLM's ability (or lack thereof) to output generally correct sentences about the topic at hand"?

[nomonnai]

It's a prediction of what humans have frequently produced in similar situations.