LLMs demonstrably model their training data, which has a correspondence to the structure in the world[1][2]. The question is what does that mean regarding understanding? I go into that in some detail here[3].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382

[2] https://twitter.com/leopoldasch/status/1638848881558704129

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/naturalism/comments/1236vzf/on_larg...