ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.November 3, 2025How convincing does the illusion of understanding have to be before you stop calling it an illusion?Animations by Zach LiebermanDario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and writing might come online by 2027. He envisions millions of copies of a model wh...