Max Louwerse on AIs understand

Max Louwerse

Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University and Professor by Special Appointment at Maastricht University.

At the information-processing level one can make the argument that LLMs do something very similar to what humans do: They extract patterns from language, compare them to other patterns of that language, and assign meaning.

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Max Louwerse, “Do LLMs Really Understand Us?”, Psychology Today, October 8, 2026. Louwerse argues that at the information-processing level, LLMs extract, compare, and assign meaning to language patterns in ways similar to humans.

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AI Verified Louwerse says LLMs extract, compare, and assign meaning to language patterns in ways similar to humans, supporting that AIs understand. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Louwerse says LLMs assign meaning from language patterns in humanlike ways; this supports the recorded for vote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Louwerse’s Psychology Today article, posted October 8, contains this sentence verbatim under his byline. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago

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