zlacker

I suppose it's all a continuum and we can each have different opinions on what the threshold for "glorified markov generator" is.

But there have been many cases in my experience where the LLM could not possibly have been simply pattern-matching to something it had seen before. It really did "understand" the meaning of the code by any definition that makes sense to me.

>>kenton+(OP)
> It really did "understand" the meaning of the code by any definition that makes sense to me.

I find it dangerous to say it "understands". People are fast to say it "is sentient by any definition that makes sense to them".

Also, would we say that a compiler "understands" the meaning of the code?