That's how I see the lack of free will, actually ! What you're describing is humans lacking free will, as do every other intelligent beings. If that's the case, then I suppose AIs are indeed not so different from us :)
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.
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.