> "understanding" or something. But they can't say exactly what it is.
Umm, you just said it yourself, understanding. The model has no clue whatsoever what any of the output means, just that it scores good.
I don't understand Japanese. But given enough time and feedback I can try all the possible combinations of sounds I can come up with and answer a question in Japanese till I get a satisfying feedback from the Japanese speaker (ex: his facial expression) that asked the question. Is this satisfactory as for speaking Japanese in your opinion?
That’s a red room style argument, but I’m guessing if you have time to get feedback/etc on all possible combinations you might just learn Japanese (because it is informationally compact to get high scores through semantic understanding rather that wrote memorization).
Umm, you just said it yourself, understanding. The model has no clue whatsoever what any of the output means, just that it scores good.
I don't understand Japanese. But given enough time and feedback I can try all the possible combinations of sounds I can come up with and answer a question in Japanese till I get a satisfying feedback from the Japanese speaker (ex: his facial expression) that asked the question. Is this satisfactory as for speaking Japanese in your opinion?