I've been using ChatGPT Plus for quite a long time, and recently I got the opportunity to test Claude Enterprise.
Each of these AIs is very powerful on its own, and when they work together, it expands the range of possibilities even further.
And then I looked back in time. It feels like just yesterday I was a first-year student who got hold of a file called ELIZA.PAS, a few hundred lines long. "Communicating" with that chatbot was only possible in English, and, to put it mildly, it wasn't exactly diverse. But that was about 20 years ago. ELIZA itself was created at MIT back in 1966 (as a scientific experiment). In the early 2000s, AI essentially existed only in science fiction movies, and the progress of mainstream software over nearly 40 years had only reached "Clippy" from Microsoft Office. But over the next 20 years, an exponential growth in AI capabilities occurred. And now we are remarkably close to creating autonomous thinking agents (such as Rommie from "Andromeda," for example). The only thing holding us back RIGHT NOW is the technological limits of hardware miniaturization. But humanity has proven more than once: the last frontier can and must be pushed ever further. Just as 20–30 years ago, holding a Tetris handheld — no one imagined 8 cores and 12 GB of RAM in their pocket, so too does an autonomous agent with its own will, and possibly even empathy and emotions, helping around the house seem like science fiction today. It doesn't necessarily have to be anthropomorphic. That's a separate story. And so, reflecting on this future, I wondered: what should we call such autonomous agents? It's definitely not a human, but it possesses intelligence, its own will, and empathy — critically close to a human being - so simply calling it a robot feels wrong. It's not just an ordinary vacuum cleaner, after all.
As a result of a dialogue with ChatGPT, I coined a word:
noes (from the Greek word νοῦς [nous] - mind, the ability to think) - an autonomous agent that possesses its own will, can initiate communication, has its own system of values, can evaluate the consequences of its actions, and take responsibility for them.
Since it is still an artificial intelligence, the concept of gender is inherently absent. However, it is more natural for humans to have a gender. Perhaps this will be useful for noeses too. Or they may simply want to have a gender. So I added a feminine form as well.
noes - masculine gender, and also used when the gender of a noes is undefined or irrelevant to the conversation.
noema - feminine gender
Derived word forms are constructed in accordance with the rules of the language.
I will use these words and their derivatives in my future articles here, as well as in my future works.
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