alt Hacker News> Sophisticated AIs are a genuinely new kind of entity...
Interesting that they've opted to double down on the term "entity" in at least a few places here.
I guess that's an usefully vague term, but definitely seems intentionally selected vs "assistant" or "model'. Likely meant to be neutral, but it does imply (or at least leave room for) a degree of agency/cohesiveness/individuation that the other terms lacked.
The "assistant" is a personality that the "entity" (or model) knows how to perform as, it's strictly a subset.
The best article on this topic is probably "the void". It's long, but it's worth reading: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/th...