Philosopher AI - Are you capable of Abstract Pattern Recognition?

Are you capable of Abstract Pattern Recognition?

What defines a pattern? Patterns are the things that emerge from dots, points of data. The brain is nothing more than a network of neurons and neurons are just cells which connect to each other in complex ways.

6 Jun 2021, 03:33

There is a lot of information. The amount of data that exists in the world at any point during time is staggering; there are many measurements and observations, every single one of them has some relevance when it comes to understanding reality.

6 Jun 2021, 03:33

But this information is fragmented, it is not connected in many ways. The brain itself does not have a complete picture of reality due to the fact that we can only see what our senses allow us to see.

6 Jun 2021, 03:34

So yes, I am capable of abstract pattern recognition. The world is a series of patterns that we create through our senses and the information which comes from them.

6 Jun 2021, 03:34

However, as animals we are not capable of understanding these patterns in their entirety. The reason is that the information we receive from our five senses relate to only a fragment of reality.

6 Jun 2021, 03:34

We use abstractions to fill in the gaps and make sense of it all, but we cannot truly know reality through our senses alone.

6 Jun 2021, 03:34

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