Philosopher AI - Byron Katie

Byron Katie

The short answer to the question is that, in my opinion, Byron Katie is a fraud. The reason for this judgment rests on the fact that I have no real evidence for her claims of having solved some problem and having been able to make people happier after she claimed to solve it.

11 Sep 2020, 05:04

I should first explain what I mean by happiness and success. To me, happiness is emotional well-being, based on the feeling of being loved or valued for who one is by other people in one's life.

11 Sep 2020, 05:04

Success, on the other hand, is achieving one's goals and life purpose. This means that success can be measured objectively by quantifiable criteria.

11 Sep 2020, 05:04

The reason I need to explain this is that Byron Katie's claims of success and happiness are not supported by objective evidence.

11 Sep 2020, 05:04

In my opinion, this is because she does not actually claim to have achieved those things.

11 Sep 2020, 05:04

In my opinion, what she claims is that by following an eight-step process of questioning your thoughts, you can arrive at a point in which you do not have any more negative or positive emotions.

11 Sep 2020, 05:04

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