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Not really, humans are the ones who think and have agency.

• FeepingCreature 3y ago
  Agency? Sounds like a problem that can be phrased as a text completion task to me! ChatGPT can already emulate beings with agency, see LangChain. It's just very bad at it. It's gonna get better.
  • andrewjl 3y ago
    > ChatGPT can already emulate beings with agency, see LangChain. It's just very bad at it. It's gonna get better. What's an example that isn't a rote process?
• awestroke 3y ago
  Do you have any source to back that claim up?
  • anileated 3y ago
    Just look up any serious, non-quacky overview about how it works. If that’s excessive, just consider the empirical fact that we have created it (that’s also why we know exactly how it works), that might be enough.
    • FeepingCreature 3y ago
      We know exactly what it does. However, how it actually works we haven't the faintest.
      • anileated 3y ago
        If you really think so, I wouldn’t sleep at night if I were you. Thankfully, we actually understand fairly well how it works (cf. the “we’ve built it” part). That we may not know exactly how any particular output is produced is what sometimes happens when you build things that behave non-deterministically. Perhaps you give RNGs and bugs an undeserved aura of mystery.
        • FeepingCreature 3y ago
          We understand how Transformers "learn", ie. how the mechanism of its action operates. However, except for the most basic of cases, we don't understand how Transformers operate the skills they've acquired and can demonstrate, at all. See the field of interpretability for early attempts to change this. For example, if you train a large network on lots of languages, and then fine-tune it to listen to instructions in English, it will, on its own, also listen to instructions in every other language it was trained on. Nobody knows why this is the case.
• zeroxfe 3y ago
  Humans only have the delusion of agency.