Can AI Be a Person? (Aquinas 101)
July 6, 2026
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as posted by the channelGenerative AI chatbots on our computers and phones speak with us, remember us, and mirror our moods with uncanny fluency. They feel personal, but underlying the seemingly personal chatbots of today are vast artificial neural networks.
They are able to generate responses a human might say because they have been trained to predict the next word from billions of textual examples across the internet.
They seem to communicate with us, but do they actually commune? Watch to find out what Prof. Jordan Wales, Ph.D., has to say!
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