Chatbot vs AI Agent: The Difference Explained

If you ask a chatbot whether it is scared about being turned off, it’ll give you an answer, often quite a moving answer. And so it’s tempting to wonder whether it’s telling the truth. It’s tempting to wonder whether machines can think or have feelings at all. But, according to the philosopher and AI researcher Murray Shanahan, machines aren’t thinking. They are just playing a role. Shanahan asks us to look at what machines are actually doing. They have digested an enormous quantity of human writ