You sincerely cannot tell the difference between an animal surviving/reproducing and an LLM doing as instructed?
No, the Navy SEAL does not lack agency in this scenario because they are still a person with individual agency, they can act on their own accord without anyone prompting them to, but in this case their superior…
> Fair to say that the server+LLM system, taken as a whole, is now an intelligent agent? No, it is not. It is a tool repeating a set of instructions you passed to it, if it ends up blowing up a hospital or hiring a…
I disagree with parent but your comment just reeks of “ha! gotcha!” vibes, which… yeah… no.
> For simple things, occasionally! No, you don’t because there’s no such thing.
It’s a legal convention born out of a sense of responsibility. An LLM is even “dumber” than a child (precisely because it doesn’t have agency) so its “parents” are even more responsible for its actions.
> Right, but an EV that explodes because of a fault in the charging circuit is not a bomb, it's an accident. Just because something exploded for complex reasons doesn't make it an obfuscated bomb. An accident that could…
You sincerely cannot tell the difference between an animal surviving/reproducing and an LLM doing as instructed?
No, the Navy SEAL does not lack agency in this scenario because they are still a person with individual agency, they can act on their own accord without anyone prompting them to, but in this case their superior…
> Fair to say that the server+LLM system, taken as a whole, is now an intelligent agent? No, it is not. It is a tool repeating a set of instructions you passed to it, if it ends up blowing up a hospital or hiring a…
I disagree with parent but your comment just reeks of “ha! gotcha!” vibes, which… yeah… no.
> For simple things, occasionally! No, you don’t because there’s no such thing.
It’s a legal convention born out of a sense of responsibility. An LLM is even “dumber” than a child (precisely because it doesn’t have agency) so its “parents” are even more responsible for its actions.
> Right, but an EV that explodes because of a fault in the charging circuit is not a bomb, it's an accident. Just because something exploded for complex reasons doesn't make it an obfuscated bomb. An accident that could…