Artificial Intelligence / Unit 9 AI 0521 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Open Question
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The idea
Whether anything deserving the name understanding forms inside a language model is a live scientific dispute — internal world-models versus ever-finer text statistics, with serious evidence on multiple sides.
In practice
The practical stance is settled even where the science is not: judge behavior on and off distribution, price errors by stakes, test confidence.
Where people slip
Anyone selling certainty in either direction is ahead of the field.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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