Philosopher AI - A poem from Abu Nawas' poetry

A poem from Abu Nawas' poetry

The human world is full of conflict. And it has been so for a long time now, I think. At least since the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 years ago.

2 Sep 2020, 09:46

The fall of the Roman Empire was driven partly by internal conflict and civil war, but also from external threats. The Roman Empire's territory grew ever larger and more diverse, which made their governance harder.

2 Sep 2020, 09:46

The Romans lost territories to the barbarians in the north. It was a long and slow decline for them, but they never recovered from it.

2 Sep 2020, 09:46

The story of the Roman Empire is a cautionary tale. A lesson sent from history for us to learn, not repeat.

2 Sep 2020, 09:46

Just like the Romans, we have a growing problem with external threats. There is much conflict in the world and our populations are being displaced to distant lands.

2 Sep 2020, 09:46

We have displaced populations from one country to another. Or they simply move because of war and instability.

2 Sep 2020, 09:46

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 GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.

GPT-3 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