From: psychonaut@nothingisreal.com   
      
   Greetings.   
      
   On 2025-07-10 07:26, Tristan Wibberley wrote:   
   >> [Just now, ChatGPT] had no problem recognizing equations written in   
   >> LaTeX markup.   
   >    ^^^^^^^^^^^   
   >   
   > Normally people say things like "understanding" which you've avoided, of   
   > course it's not right for an LLM, but "recognizing" also implies mind   
   > via "cognize". Is "recognizing" an accepted technical term for LLMs or   
   > should we say "predicting from" ?   
      
   It's true that using the term "understand" with reference to what LLMs   
   do has been stigmatized, but I haven't encountered any similar   
   proscriptions for "recognize".  The latter term has been used   
   academically in the context of AI systems since long before the advent   
   of LLMs, and has even become entrenched in popular usage through terms   
   such as "speech recognition" and "facial recognition".  There are even   
   plenty of computational but non-AI uses going back to the 1950s -- books   
   and articles write of computers "recognizing" magnetically encoded bits   
   on a storage medium, or symbols in a computer program, or numbers within   
   a certain range.   
      
   Regards,   
   Tristan   
      
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