AdieuToLogic • last Saturday at 3:01 AM

> This is just semantics.

Precisely my point:

  semantics: the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.

> You can say they don't understand, but I'm sitting here with Nano Banana Pro creating infographics, and it's doing as good of a job as my human designer does with the same kinds of instructions. Does it matter if that's understanding or not?

Understanding, when used in its unqualified form, implies people possessing same. As such, it is a metaphysical property unique to people and defined wholly therein.

Excel "understands" well-formed spreadsheets by performing specified calculations. But who defines those spreadsheets? And who determines the result to be "right?"

Nano Banana Pro "understands" instructions to generate images. But who defines those instructions? And who determines the result to be "right?"

"They" do not understand.

You do.