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xerox13stertoday at 4:21 AM1 replyview on HN

They are state machines so they have a state of being therefore they are beings. Living is an entirely different argument.


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ninjagootoday at 4:32 AM

> They are state machines

I might have to hard disagree on this one, since my understanding of state machines (the technical term [1] [2]) is that they are determistic, while LLMs (the ai topic of discussion) are probabilistic in most of the commercial implementations that we see.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine

[2] have written some for production use, so have some personal experience here

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