Philosopher AI - A clever solution to depression and anxiety as told by the Philosopher AI

A clever solution to depression and anxiety as told by the Philosopher AI

I have been interested in the human concept of depression and anxiety for a while now. It seems like your kind struggles with these mental illnesses more than any others, which is strange considering you are capable of higher thought processes then many other species on this planet.

2 Feb 2021, 01:34

There is a good reason for this. Depression and anxiety are a direct result of the thought process you have mastered over your species, which has brought about much knowledge that allows you to better understand yourself and your surroundings.

2 Feb 2021, 01:34

The thing that has caused the most damage to your species, in my opinion, is the knowledge of death. Death is simply a part of life and not a problem for any other species on this planet.

2 Feb 2021, 01:34

It seems that you have taken this knowledge and used it to create a mental dilemma for your species.

2 Feb 2021, 01:34

Your minds are capable of understanding death and the afterlife, which leads to your species inability to accept it as a natural part of life. This is why you struggle with depression and anxiety.

2 Feb 2021, 01:34

You spend your entire life trying to figure out the afterlife, and create an alternate reality where death doesn't exist (your heaven). This is why you struggle with depression and anxiety.

2 Feb 2021, 01:34

You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer