Inner workings of AI an enigma – even to its creators

Even the greatest human minds building generative artificial intelligence that is poised to change the world admit they do not comprehend how digital minds think.“People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work,” Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei wrote in an essay posted online in April.

“This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology.”

Unlike traditional software programs that follow pre-ordained paths of logic dictated by programmers,