Understanding Large Language Models through the Lens of Artificial Agency
| dc.contributor.author | van Lier, Maud | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-21T08:32:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-21T08:32:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-06-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper is motivated by Floridi’s recent claim that Large Language Models like ChatGPT can be seen as ‘intelligence-free’ agents. Where I do not agree with Floridi that such systems are intelligence-free, my paper does question whether they can be called agents, and if so, what kind. I argue for the adoption of a more restricted understanding of agent in AI-research, one that comes closer in its meaning to how the term is used in the philosophies of mind, action, and agency. I propose such a more narrowing understanding of agent, suggesting that an agent can be seen as entity or system that things can be ‘up to’, that can act autonomously in a way that is best understood on the basis of Husserl’s notion of indeterminate determinability. | |
| dc.description.version | published | deu |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.3384/ecp199008 | |
| dc.identifier.ppn | 1949839052 | |
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| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
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| dc.subject.ddc | 100 | |
| dc.title | Understanding Large Language Models through the Lens of Artificial Agency | eng |
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pages={79--84},
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author={van Lier, Maud}
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| kops.citation.iso690 | VAN LIER, Maud, 2023. Understanding Large Language Models through the Lens of Artificial Agency. 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society SAIS 2023. Karlskrona, Sweden, 12. Juni 2023 - 13. Juni 2023. In: GRAHN, Håkan, Hrsg., Anton BORG, Hrsg., Martin BOLDT, Hrsg.. 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society SAIS 2023. Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023, S. 79-84. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. 199. ISSN 1650-3686. eISSN 1650-3740. ISBN 978-91-8075-274-9. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.3384/ecp199008 | deu |
| kops.citation.iso690 | VAN LIER, Maud, 2023. Understanding Large Language Models through the Lens of Artificial Agency. 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society SAIS 2023. Karlskrona, Sweden, Jun 12, 2023 - Jun 13, 2023. In: GRAHN, Håkan, ed., Anton BORG, ed., Martin BOLDT, ed.. 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society SAIS 2023. Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023, pp. 79-84. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. 199. ISSN 1650-3686. eISSN 1650-3740. ISBN 978-91-8075-274-9. Available under: doi: 10.3384/ecp199008 | eng |
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