XPost: alt.christnet.ethics, alt.usage.english, alt.culture   
   XPost: alt.politics, soc.rights.human   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 14:40:42 -0700, x  wrote:   
      
   >Isn't AI just a modern version of 'Clippy the Paperclip' with   
   >more 'bells and whistles'?   
      
   I prefer to think of it as a super search engine, able to combine the   
   results of several searches into a single report/document.   
      
   I don't believe that any of the LLMs now available are   
   intelligent/sentient/conscious, and they therefore the impression they   
   give of "thinking for themselves" is an illusion, but some of the   
   people over in alt.philosophy will tell you that it's an illusion for   
   himan beings as well   
      
   The way LLMs (the so-called AI) do this is determined by the   
   programmers, but even so, Elon Musk's Grok seems able to disagree with   
   its owner.   
      
      
      
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