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If we think of the tools as generating entirely novel content then I'd suggest we're using them for the wrong thing here - we shouldn't be using it at all as a glorified (now literal) search engine, it should be exploring some other space entirely. If we discovered a brand new sentient creature we wouldn't immediately try to fill its head with all the knowledge on the internet and then force it to answer what the weather will be tomorrow.


I have no idea what sentience really means, but I think novel content generation is a necessary but not sufficient component.


True, I was overly grandiose. Regardless, we're taking something that can apparently generate new intellectual content, but we're using it as a beast of burden.




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