Comment by famouswaffles

>because they don't understand anything at all about the world.

LLMs understand plenty, in any way that can be tested. It's really funny when i see making mistakes as the evidence of lack of understanding. Guess people don't understand anything at all too.

> I often see ChatGPT stumped by simple variations of brain teasers

Only if everything else is exactly as the basic teaser and guess what ? humans fall for this too. They see something they memorized and go full speed ahead. Simply changing names is enough to get it to solve it.