I didn't mean to say GT has understanding, quite the opposite ;) I meant to use it as an example of how translating without understanding doesn't go too well in many cases.
I think I might have misunderstood your original comment though, as we seem to mostly be on the same side of the issue. That being said, could you expand on this?:
> the seq2seq model doesn't provide understanding, it only learns to encode the general meaning of the sequence
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but "encoding the general meaning" sounds a lot like a form of "understanding", and I wouldn't say seq2seq does any of that. (That's getting pretty philosophical though...)
I think I might have misunderstood your original comment though, as we seem to mostly be on the same side of the issue. That being said, could you expand on this?:
> the seq2seq model doesn't provide understanding, it only learns to encode the general meaning of the sequence
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but "encoding the general meaning" sounds a lot like a form of "understanding", and I wouldn't say seq2seq does any of that. (That's getting pretty philosophical though...)