alt Hacker NewsThey said it doesn’t “understand” anything with which to give a real answer, so there’s no point in asking. You said “yeah but it should at least emulate the words of something that understands, that way I can pay a nickel for some apology tokens.” That about right?
I mean at some point what difference does this make? We can split hairs about whether it 'really understands' the thing, and maybe that's an interesting side-topic to talk about on these forums, but the behavior and outputs of the model is what really matters to everyone else right?
Maybe it doesn't 'understand' in the experiential, qualia way that a human does. Sure. But it's still a valid and useful simile to use with these models because they emulate something close enough to understanding; so much so now that when they stop doing it, that's the point of conversation, not the other way around.