While today’s AI systems are judged by metrics—token likelihood, BLEU scores, benchmark wins—these rarely reflect the actual experience of a human speaking to an intelligent agent. Why? Because intelligence isn’t reducible to performance. It’s about coherence. And coherence begins where metrics end: in trust.
Most conversations about AI orbit productivity: Can it help us do more? A few have flipped the script: What if we did less, and felt more? But both frames—doing vs. feeling, action vs. pause—are artifacts of an outdated logic. They treat AI as either an accelerator or a sedative. Neither is enough. The real shift…
The whole debate about a fully functional AI machine that has the ability to feel, contemplate, and reflect is a bit flatulent. Isaac Asimov tried to imagine the thinking of sentient machines in his book “I, robot,” but what is missing in addressing is the inability of the mind to observe itself. We still don’t…