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Comment by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
VP and Fellow at Google Research; AI researcher and author
Fundamentally, concepts are patterns of correlation, association, and generalization. Suitably architected neural nets, whether biological or digital, are able to learn such patterns using any input available. Neural activity is neural activity, whether it comes from eyes, fingertips, or text.AI Verified source (2022)
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The quote clearly implies support for the statement. It defines concepts as learned patterns of correlation, association, and generalization, then says suitably architected digital neural nets can learn those patterns from text or other inputs. That treats AI systems as capable of the kind of concept-learning the author associates with understanding.
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The quote strongly implies support: it says "concepts are patterns of correlation, association, and generalization" and that "digital" neural nets can "learn such patterns" from inputs like "text." That treats understanding as pattern-learning/generalization and says AIs can do it, though only for "suitably architected" systems and under that conception of understanding.
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Verified: the provided PDF is Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s 2022 article "Do Large Language Models Understand Us?" and, on page 5 (lines 157–159), it contains the same three-sentence passage matching the submitted quote, beginning "Fundamentally, concepts..." and ending "...fingertips, or text." ([amacad.org](https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/downloads/Daedalus_Sp22_13_Aguera-y-Arcas.pdf))
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