On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:

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>  >>*Was Stephen Hawking "embodied"? Even today's clumsy robots can
directly manipulate things in the physical world better than he could.*


>  *>Yes he was embodied.  He was always in some particular place. *

*>>**You could say exactly the same thing about an AI supercomputing data
center.*

*>But not ChatGPT or any other LLM.  They are werever the computation is
running.*

*And you are wherever your brain is running. Or maybe not, after all I'm
sure you don't feel like you're inside a box made of bone, so maybe "you"
are wherever "you" are looking at, or thinking about; it doesn't matter
because exactly the same thing could be said about ChatGPT or any other
LLM.*

*John K Clark*



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