Why GPT Never Gets Surprised
You can give GPT an unexpected fact. It can calculate prediction error. It can even say, “That surprised me.” None of those things mean it experienced surprise. Ask ChatGPT a question, then reveal that the
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The Infrastructure of Attention
Human attention is the planet's most valuable resource because every human future has to pass through it first. The Hidden Infrastructure We usually think of infrastructure as roads, wires, pipes, ports, servers, and satellites. These
The Interruption Tax
A notification takes a second. The surprise it leaves behind can take much longer to resolve. An Interruption Is Not Measured by the Clock We usually measure interruptions in time. The message took thirty seconds.
Bad AI Captures Attention. Good AI Returns Attention.
The value of AI is not only what it can produce. The value of AI is whether it returns the human attention it consumes. AI is usually evaluated by output. Did it write the email?
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Absorption Is Prediction Success
A thing does not disappear from attention because it is unimportant. It disappears because it is predicted well enough. The strangest implication of the model is not that surprise captures attention. Most people already know
Attention Is Not Time
Human attention is the scarce conscious surface through which the future becomes history. We often speak as if attention and time are the same thing. We say, “Give me five minutes.” We say, “I need