[lo_zamoyski]

> The whole discourse of "stochastic parrots" and "do models understand" and so on is deeply unhealthy [...] So instead we have lots of arguments where people project meaning onto very fuzzy ideas and the argument doesn't ground out to scientific, empirical claims.

I would put it this way: the question "do LLMs, etc understand?" is rooted in a category mistake.

Meaning, I am not claiming that it is premature to answer such questions because we lack a sufficient grasp of neutral networks. I am asserting that LLMs don't understand, because the question of whether they do is like asking whether A-flat is yellow.