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el_chaquiste t1_j8fcjke wrote

Reply to comment by FusionRocketsPlease in Altman vs. Yudkowsky outlook by kdun19ham

Parent is not as bad as the downvotes seem to make it.

Do we have evidence of emergent agency behaviors?

So far, all LLMs and image generators do is auto-completing from a prompt. Sometimes with funny or crazy responses, but nothing implying agency (the ability to start chains of actions on the world on its own volition).

I get some of these systems soon will start being self-driven or automated to accomplish some goals over time, not just wait to be prompted, by using an internal programmed agenda and better sensors. An existing example, are Tesla's or other FSDs, and even them are passive machines with respect to their voyages and use. They don't decide where to go, just take you there.

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MysteryInc152 t1_j8fzf1i wrote

Even humans don't start a chain of action without some input. Interaction is not the only form of input for us. What you hear, what you see, what you touch and feel. What you smell. All forms of input that inspire action in us. How would a person behave if he was strolled of all input? I suspect not far off from how LLMs currently are. Anyway streams of input is fairly non trivial especially when LLMs are grounded in the physical world.

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