Indeed, I don't know if you "understand" anything. I know that what you and GPT-3 are doing is rather different, and so it's remarkable that they seem even the tiniest bit similar, but it doesn't really matter whether one is "understanding" or not.

Being so different and yet so similar, it's maddening not to know whether they're converging, or if it's a dead end, or even if it's going in some entirely third direction.