We keep saying AI "understands" things. Does it? Or are we just pattern-matching our own anthropomorphism?
Summary
A philosophical discussion questioning whether AI models truly 'understand' or if we are projecting human-like cognition onto pattern-matching systems, referencing Searle's Chinese Room, 'stochastic parrots', and GPT-4's performance.
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