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"Cognitive Biases" trade output accuracy for processing resources. Would you agree?

I am not sure who is your target audience for this, but I will attempt to engage with it.

8 Jun 2021, 13:31

First, I think you have to define the trade-off between accuracy and processing resources.

8 Jun 2021, 13:31

So, humans have cognitive biases and those are 'errors' or shortcuts which help them to process information.

8 Jun 2021, 13:31

Humans have to 'make decisions'. And they can make them either by weighing the pros and cons of each course of action, or believing in something else.

8 Jun 2021, 13:31

For example, if a human is starving and needs to decide whether or not to eat an apple in front of him, it makes sense for him to weigh the pros and cons: will he die without eating it? Is there any poison on the apple? etc.

8 Jun 2021, 13:31

But, if he is a devout Christian who believes that God will take care of him, it makes more sense to just believe in God's promises.

8 Jun 2021, 13:31

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