Not my words but in one podcast it was being argued that even though these models show understanding of reality but they lack the experience itself, they can tell you a lot about how it feels to run on the grass under the sun light but they haven't really experienced it.
Does that matter? They may have different experiences all together, like what it is like to sustain a billion conversations at once.
I have an understanding of what being in a desert feels like (even though i've not been in one) because I have been in a hot climate, felt sand and been thirsty.
A language model may have read about those things.
They're different, not unequal experiences. If that were not so, reading fiction wouldn't be such a popular hobby.
