Comment by threethirtytwo

10 days ago

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.

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adastra22  10 days ago

> Technically no

There's no technical basis for stating that.

  • threethirtytwo  10 days ago

    Text that imitates agency 100 percent perfectly is technically by the word itself an imitation and thus technically not agentic.

    • adastra22  9 days ago

      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?

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