François Fleuret: Nobody actually knows what 'understand' means
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-27
Former Meta researcher François Fleuret posted a pointed reminder: when people argue about whether AI systems truly 'understand,' they have no clear idea what the word itself means — highlighting that the core dispute over LLM understanding lacks even a shared definition of the key term.
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