What is the difference between what LLM's do and "true" understanding?

I feel like people grasping straws on the shrinking limitations of AI systems are just copying the "god of the gaps" fallacy

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davebren 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> What is the difference between what LLM's do and "true" understanding?

The thing where you can understand the meaning of this sentence without first compiling a statistical representation of a 10 trillion line corpus of training data.

Unless you're an NPC of course.

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smashers1114 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean brains get a lot of training data too in order to understand language. I don't think you provided a relevant difference.

Or rather, maybe I don't understand what you mean :)

	▲	davebren 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When you think about the word apple and what it signifies, what do you experience? Is there a feeling of "appleness"? Do you think that sense of meaning is equivalent to the numerical weights of an LLM?