A thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand—or why #ChatGPT (or any other language model) isn't actually understanding.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83

@emilymbender Many thanks for sharing these thoughts, so well explained! A follow-up thought: In order to make sense of generative AI output we as humans recipients need to be capable of making sense of the language - but what if we humans over the next hundreds of years "just" write prompts? these could become less similar to what we think of as "meaningful text" as we understand it now,. then the generative AI still writes in the "old" language (which is now our language)...