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David_Gerard comments on Tools want to become agents - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 July 2014 10:12AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 04 July 2014 04:26:13PM 0 points [-]

A cat's an agent. It has goals it works towards. I've seen cats manifest creativity that surprised me.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 05 July 2014 01:32:26PM 0 points [-]

Why is that surprising? Does anyone think that "agent" implies human level intelligence?