Instead, skeptics often gesture to hallucinations, errors. [...] However, such arguments reliably rule out human “understanding” as well!
“Can do some impressive things, but struggles with basic arithmetic and likes to make stuff up” is such a fitting description of humans that I was quite surprised when it turned out to be true of LLMs too.
Whenever I see a someone claim that it means LLM can’t “understand” something, I find it quite amusing that they’re almost demonstrating their own point; just not in the way they think they are.
“Can do some impressive things, but struggles with basic arithmetic and likes to make stuff up” is such a fitting description of humans that I was quite surprised when it turned out to be true of LLMs too.
Whenever I see a someone claim that it means LLM can’t “understand” something, I find it quite amusing that they’re almost demonstrating their own point; just not in the way they think they are.