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orangebreadtoday at 4:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

How do we know that AI isn't feeling genuine surprise then?


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philipallstartoday at 4:14 PM

Because it's a statistical process generating one part of a word at a time. It probably isn't even generating "surprise". It might be generating "sur", then "prise" then "!"

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lee_arstoday at 4:36 PM

Because it has no mind, no cognition, and nothing to "feel" with. Don't mistake programmatic mimicry for intention. That's just your own linguistic-forward primate cognition being fooled by the linguistic signals the training set and prompt are making the AI emit.

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