Geoffrey Hinton, Aka the "Godfather of Al" admits in a recent lecture at Kings College that he believes current Al probably has feelings & emotions & speaks about why he avoids talking about it.

Ilya Sustkever has some good explanations as to why AI in predicting the next token, has modeled the world and has gained an understanding of what lead to creation of those tokens (words or parts of words) and the better a model is at predicting the next token the higher the fidelity is in its understanding the world through the relationship of words…but don’t take my word for it. Actually listen to what the top experts in AI are saying …

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