Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. You are correct it is difficult to be sure what true understanding is. Philosophers have been debating this for longer than computer scientists.
> It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in that:
This is a non-response.
Unlike an algorithm, humans have the faculties of creativity, intelligence and sentience. Furthermore, we have the crucial traits of self-awareness and being able to have experiences. We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps.
Re:What ChatGPT Can't Do
by MacsHeadroom on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:54PM
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That's not a valid argument; it's just the kind of nice sounding chain of claims a biological LMM would regurgitate.
- we are more finely tuned
- and we have a wider variety of inputs that we can respond to and outputs by which we can respond