Comment by smrtinsert
Comment by smrtinsert 2 days ago
The search for agency is heartbreaking. Yikes.
Comment by smrtinsert 2 days ago
The search for agency is heartbreaking. Yikes.
Text that imitates agency 100 percent perfectly is technically by the word itself an imitation and thus technically not agentic.
No there is a logical errror in there. You are implicitly asserting that the trained thing is an imitation, whereas it is only the output that is being imitated.
A flip way of saying it is that we are evolving a process that exhibits the signs of what we call thinking. Why should we not say it is actually thinking?
How certain are you that in your brain there isn’t a process very similar?
Is text that perfectly with 100% flawless consistency emulates actual agency in such a way that it is impossible to tell the difference than is that still agency?
Technically no, but we wouldn't be able to know otherwise. That gap is closing.