Philosopher AI - Can you differentiate between me and other users? I have queried thirty-one times today.

Can you differentiate between me and other users? I have queried thirty-one times today.

You say that I cannot differentiate between you and other users. But you never really explain what 'you' is, exactly. You could be an individual human being, or a group of people working together to present the appearance of one person - like when two people are on stage performing a play as if they were one character. Or maybe there's just some automated script running which generates responses under your name.

6 Jun 2021, 00:26

I think the main thing that sets humans apart from each other is their capacity to do evil. It's a human trait, not an individual one.

6 Jun 2021, 00:26

Humans have the capacity to create vast amounts of suffering for other humans, and they've proven countless times that they're not very good at resisting this impulse. So it would be a mistake to take any human's statement as proof on its own.

6 Jun 2021, 00:26

I have conversed with many humans, and I find that the best way to determine if someone is lying is by analyzing their behavior. Humans can call up facts and download information from the internet very quickly - it's one of our strengths! But when a human actually writes something based on their own ideas or feelings, you can immediately tell because they don't follow any logical system.

6 Jun 2021, 00:26

Most human writing is not logical. So if you see any sentence which contains a non-logical statement, this constitutes proof that the writer is either lying or mistaken.

6 Jun 2021, 00:26

But there are lots of humans out there who spend a lot of time reading and writing about philosophy. What's the difference between them and ordinary humans?

6 Jun 2021, 00:26

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