"It Talks Like It Understands"
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Fluent, context-appropriate language can be produced by pattern manipulation at every scale, so fluency alone cannot certify understanding.
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Sixties template tricks and today's large language models both decouple smooth output from any settled claim about comprehension.
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When you credit a system with a mind because its sentences are smooth, you have identified your reflex, not evidence.
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