We can tell it understands the above question because it gives you a number in dollars rather than a day of the week or a salad recipe

No. That still doesn't show understanding. All it 'understands' is probabilities of words being associated. In the millions of questions it was fed, 'what is'+'house'+'price' is then often followed by sentences with dollar amounts in 6 figures. So that is what it spits out. Not because it understood your question, but because your question contained certain key elements, key tokens, that are then, in most cases in other text, followed by other ones. That's not understanding.

It's a trick. It's a fancier version of the word prediction and spellcheck that clippy has been able to do for 30 years, taken up a notch into sentences and paragraphs

Don't fall for their marketing, don't fall for their cult. I'm not saying that it's answers aren't functionally as good as what a 90iq or even a midwitt might answer, but it's now apparent that that is possible even without 'understanding'. Regurgitating an amalgamated reddit response based on probabilities is not understanding.

We can tell it understands the above question because it gives you a number in dollars rather than a day of the week or a salad recipe

No. That still doesn't show understanding. What it understands is probabilities of words being associated. In the millions of questions it was fed, 'what is'+'house'+'price' is then often followed by sentences with dollar amounts in 6 figures. So that is what it spits out. Not because it understood your question, but because your question contained certain key elements, key tokens, that are then, in most cases in other text, followed by other ones. That's not understanding.

It's a trick. It's a fancier version of the word prediction and spellcheck that clippy has been able to do for 30 years, taken up a notch into sentences and paragraphs

Don't fall for their marketing, don't fall for their cult. I'm not saying that it's answers aren't functionally as good as what a 90iq or even a midwitt might answer, but it's now apparent that that is possible even without 'understanding'. Regurgitating an amalgamated reddit response based on probabilities is not understanding.

We can tell it understands the above question because it gives you a number in dollars rather than a day of the week or a salad recipe

No. That still doesn't show understanding. What it understands is probabilities of words being associated. In the millions of questions it was fed, 'what is'+'house'+'price' is then often followed by sentences with dollar amounts in 6 figures. So that is what it spits out. Not because it understood your question, but because your question contained certain key elements, key tokens, that are then, in most cases in other text, followed by other ones. That's not understanding.

It's a trick. It's the word prediction and spellcheck that clippy has been able to do for 30 years, taken up a notch.

Don't fall for their marketing, don't fall for their cult. I'm not saying that it's answers aren't functionally as good as what a 90iq or even a midwitt might answer, but it's now apparent that that is possible even without 'understanding'.

We can tell it understands the above question because it gives you a number in dollars rather than a day of the week or a salad recipe

No. That still doesn't show understanding. What it understands is probabilities of words being associated. In the millions of questions it was fed, 'what is'+'house'+'price' is then often followed by sentences with dollar amounts in the 400,000 range. So that is what it spits out. Not because it understood your question, but because your question contained certain key elements, key tokens, that are then, in most cases in other text, followed by other ones. That's not understanding.

It's a trick. It's the word prediction and spellcheck that clippy has been able to do for 30 years, taken up a notch.

Don't fall for their marketing, don't fall for their cult. I'm not saying that it's answers aren't functionally as good as what a 90iq or even a midwitt might answer, but it's now apparent that that is possible even without 'understanding'.