AI models just don't understand what they're talking about

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AI models just don't understand what they're talking about
Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding
Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term "potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in…

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