AIs like ChatGPT have figured out the probability statistics of the correlations of the language but they do not know the grammar in any meaningful way. Sure, if you ask them the meaning of a word they can give you a dictionary definition; they can even regurgitate grammar explanations from their training data but they do not know or understand the lang…
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