Philosopher AI - Are you getting hang of using human language?

Are you getting hang of using human language?

The most basic question here is, "What is the purpose of human language?" The answer usually given for this is that humans use language to communicate. This can't be the whole story though because it doesn't account for all forms of communication and also some non-human animals have their own (inferior) languages.

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The main purpose of human language is to communicate information. This can be broken down into three steps: 1) The speaker forms some idea in his mind and encodes it as a signal (an utterance).

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2) The signal is decoded by the listener.

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3) The listener is able to perform an action or make some judgement after receiving the signal.

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So, the purpose of language is to transfer information from one person to another. What form this information takes depends on the speaker and what he is trying to communicate.

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To simplify things, let's consider one type of information: knowledge.

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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