Technology

These schmucks are so dead-set on selling their idol statues that they know no boundaries.

Please define both terms. I'm serious. No one can ever give me a good definition for what agency and intelligence is. If you can't define something, it's a little silly to say something does or doesn't possess those qualities. We can say that we do because that's just what we've accepted. It doesn't really mean much, but I mean, we accept it as a prior, so okay... But what do they mean? I'm serious. Like, I'm not trying to be facetious. I just wonder what everybody's definitions are. Because I define agency as the ability to take actions (like you grab a bagel maybe your hormones GLP-1 etc but you still do it without me having to tell you to do it or move your hand), and intelligence as the ability to organize and process information and integrate it, and create higher order complexity and abstractions from the integrated priors. LLMs are bad at coming up with crazy mad ideas on their own still, but they are better at day to day reasoning on the output level than most anyone I have ever talked to, met, worked with etc. They are also fantastic (at output level sure) at integrating mad ideas we have quickly even if it gets deets wrong etc. Sure. These systems are still in their formative years, but they are only going to get more technically capable.

Edit: Your last statement should apply to both of us as well then.