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Ask HN: Have recent AI breakthroughs made you question existence of free will?

3•amichail•19h ago
Doesn't modern AI make it clear that free will isn't necessary for intelligent, human-like behavior?

Comments

JohnFen•18h ago
No, it has had no impact on my opinions about free will.

> Doesn't modern AI make it clear that free will isn't necessary for intelligent, human-like behavior?

Not at all.

haniehz•18h ago
Watching LLMs mimic reasoning so well definitely makes you wonder how much of our own thinking is just pattern prediction with extra steps.
incomingpain•17h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

It's not AI. It's Markov chains that essentially prove no free will.

AI partially uses these but not significantly. So AI isnt what makes me question.

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