Ghosts in the Machine: Are We Creating Autonomy or Just Simulating It? Jay Couture · Follow 15 min read · Just now Sometimes, the line between fascination and apprehension feels razor-thin. In a popular dream for all of us, autonomy evokes images of robots dutifully handling all of the sucky mundane tasks we don’t want to do ourselves: cooking, laundry, driving (well, not for we enthusiasts…), cleaning, scheduling appointments. We hear of AI “agents” scouring the internet as personal assistants to plan trips and solve problems without us micromanaging every step, which forges an illusion of independence. Beneath this futuristic facade lies a more tangled reality, a crossroads of philosophical debates on free will, the technical labyrinth of multi-step reasoning, and the hard limits of today’s AI models. What […]
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