Comment by krupan

My "and then" simply implies order of operations. When it's fully "trained" then (and only then) can it generate text.

And I will reassert that even if it "understands" the text it was trained on, that is not the same as understanding humans. I mean really, we ARE humans and we barely understand humans.

The thing LLMs model and "predict" is simply, what words in what order are statistically common given these input words in this order.

You can write (non-ai) software to model and predict things using the laws of physics. I'd wager it would do a better job than any LLM at predicting where a rocket will go through space. Does that mean the program is conscious and "understands" physics? No