AIs can be self-prompting. Have you heard of AutoGPT? AI doesn't need prompts to do things, you could embed a goal into the AI's design instead and it would do everything autonomously without input, but generally people want to be able to prompt them. So this is not a good example of something AIs can't do, and to an outsider the AI would appear to have as much of a will as a human does.
Lol "embedding a goal" in an AI's design is functionally the same thing as prompting it. Human goals beyond the survival imperative are far more spontaneous than what could be achieved by goals designed into an AI.
Even if it is functionally the same, so what? How does that prove humans can do something AIs can't? Humans have inherent traits from birth that you could say came from God or ancestry/evolution, and this is akin to prompts baked into the design of an AI. Humans aren't really that spontaneous in my opinion, and LLMs tend to be more creative than most people I know, which is why they're popular for generating ideas, even though that makes the user even less capable of being creative for himself.
Insofar as the nature of most human lives, you could say people aren't that complex and live the vast majority of their time by routine. On the other hand, the routine nature of most of human existence is irrelevant to the instances when people flex their free will, which are myriad, unpredictable, and astounding.
What are the predilections that led Newton to ponder gravity after an apple fell on his head? Compared to those forces, a goal programmed into an AI is as complex as an amoeba.
AIs can be self-prompting. Have you heard of AutoGPT? AI doesn't need prompts to do things, you could embed a goal into the AI's design instead and it would do everything autonomously without input, but generally people want to be able to prompt them. So this is not a good example of something AIs can't do, and to an outsider the AI would appear to have as much of a will as a human does.
Lol "embedding a goal" in an AI's design is functionally the same thing as prompting it. Human goals beyond the survival imperative are far more spontaneous than what could be achieved by goals designed into an AI.
Even if it is functionally the same, so what? How does that prove humans can do something AIs can't? Humans have inherent traits from birth that you could say came from God or ancestry/evolution, and this is akin to prompts baked into the design of an AI. Humans aren't really that spontaneous in my opinion, and LLMs tend to be more creative than most people I know, which is why they're popular for generating ideas, even though that makes the user even less capable of being creative for himself.
Insofar as the nature of most human lives, you could say people aren't that complex and live the vast majority of their time by routine. On the other hand, the routine nature of most of human existence is irrelevant to the instances when people flex their free will, which are myriad, unpredictable, and astounding.
What are the predilections that led Newton to ponder gravity after an apple fell on his head? Compared to those forces, a goal programmed into an AI is as complex as an amoeba.