Lately, I’ve been wrestling with this idea could an AI ever genuinely feel confident, or would it always just be running a convincing simulation? We see AI making decisions, adjusting responses, and even “learning” from interactions, but does that translate to real confidence, or is it just advanced pattern recognition?
I work in charity, where confidence often means trusting your gut when data isn’t enough. AI doesn’t have intuition, but it can crunch numbers faster than any human. Does that make its “certainty” a kind of confidence, or is something missing? And if it’s just mimicking, how close could it get before the difference stops mattering?
Would love to hear thoughts, especially from folks into sci-fi or tech. Where do you draw the line between real confidence and a really good algorithm?