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You're entering a more philosophical debate than a technical one, because for this point to make any sense, you'd have to define what "understanding" language means for a human in a level as low as what you're describing for an LLM.
Can you affirm that what a human brain does to understand language is so different to what an LLM does?
I'm not saying an LLM is smart, but saying that it doesn't understand, when having computers "understand" natural language is the core of NLP, is meh.
No they're not they're talking purely at a technical level and you're trying to apply mysticism to it.