The Limits of Understanding Natural Language

We can't even now predict 2025. What that's going to look like if 2023 was such a surprise to us. You were asked recently about the extent to which something like a chat GPT could be said to understand what it's saying to you. There are things we're pretty sure happen in brains that involve not just this kind of feed forward of generate the next word but also a certain amount of feeding back, he says.