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“More fundamentally, AI models may not understand ‘stakes’ as humans perceive them.”
lol, yathink?
AIs don't "understand" anything - they're just pattern-matching routines on a ridiculous amount of steroids and a random small amount of hallucinogens added in for "creative purposes." The only intelligence behind them are the humans setting the guard rails for them.
This depends on the definition of understanding. If by understanding you mean mental processing then obviously AI can never do that because it has no mind, it only simulates the behaviors of a mind. But if instead understanding is understood (pun intended) to mean the process of extracting accurate information from something and responding to it in a rational way, then yes AIs do understand lots of things.
It's the first time I've seen someone say that regular expressions are intelligent because they "understand" patterns.
People do talk about writing things that "the compiler can understand" so it's nothing new. Also I think you meant to say regular expressions understand strings, not patterns - or that regular expression engines understand patterns.