Do LLMs understand? Check out my post where I explain why they don't understand or have common sense like humans, and discuss what are the essential ingredients of human-like understanding. https://dileeplearning.substack.com/p/ingredients-of-understanding
Ingredients of understanding

Thoughts on how human understanding is different from LLM "understanding"

Artificial General Ideas
@dileeplearning Proponents of LLMs effectively argue that since language is “Turing complete” (for the representation of reason) then why should you use anything else? And although most (or perhaps all?) reason can be explained using language, language alone may not be the most efficient representation of reasoning.
@dileeplearning there are so many recent scientific discoveries of intelligence in animals - ability to recognise and recall images, reason about number, to problem solve. None of this intelligence involves language.