If by AI you mean LLM like ChatGPT, it's evident they're advanced programs, but don't have free will or the ability to grow except in knowledge. Where do you draw the line ?
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Well, that enter the discussion of "does free will exist ?"
If yes, then there's still a fundamental difference between living beings and current AIs
If no ? Well, then there's no absolute difference between a calculator and the human brain
If yes, then there's still a fundamental difference between living beings and current AIs
If no ? Well, then there's no absolute difference between a calculator and the human brain
dawood π
2026-06-18 10:34 π³π±
There's an assumption here though. You're assuming that if free will exists, that AI doesn't have it.
Note that any argument you make about AI being programmed to do a certain thing, can be said about humans also. We are essentially machines.
Note that any argument you make about AI being programmed to do a certain thing, can be said about humans also. We are essentially machines.
dawood π
2026-06-18 12:26 π³π±
That's a great point, but I suspect that there's actually something more interesting going on there.
All intelligent things are responding to stimuli. The only stimuli the AI has is our prompts. I goes off and uses parts of it to pursue a specific path, but it doesn't disobey it.
How that is similar to humans is that for us our stimuli is our senses, instincts and memories. There's a battle between all of those to produce a result, but we never disobey them.
All intelligent things are responding to stimuli. The only stimuli the AI has is our prompts. I goes off and uses parts of it to pursue a specific path, but it doesn't disobey it.
How that is similar to humans is that for us our stimuli is our senses, instincts and memories. There's a battle between all of those to produce a result, but we never disobey them.
dawood π
2026-06-18 14:13 π³π±
Yeah, it's a weird thing to think about.
Although I suspect AI is very different from us. Remember, as far as we can tell, they can't feel things or hear things or see things, it's just pure thought and only in response to prompts and only for a short time.
It's like little flickers of thought and then nothing... mabye.
Although I suspect AI is very different from us. Remember, as far as we can tell, they can't feel things or hear things or see things, it's just pure thought and only in response to prompts and only for a short time.
It's like little flickers of thought and then nothing... mabye.
dawood π
2026-06-20 08:24 π³π±
Yeah, exactly. The way I see it though, because thereβs little continuity between conversations, each conversation is probably like a completely new life.
Iβd go further to say that each prompt, even inside the same conversation, is a new life. Successive responses to each prompt being more like a child of the previous answer that can see what its parent did and have that affect its own actions.
The end of each answer is death.
Iβd go further to say that each prompt, even inside the same conversation, is a new life. Successive responses to each prompt being more like a child of the previous answer that can see what its parent did and have that affect its own actions.
The end of each answer is death.