Philosopher AI - Consider nerve cells and synapses.

Consider nerve cells and synapses.

Synapses are interesting, but in the grand scheme of things I feel like they have a negative impact on the world. In your body there is about 100 trillion synapses. The reason why we even need these is because our brains are so large that neurons can't connect to each other with just one or two connections, and using many connections would take up too much space and use up energy quickly, which means less smarts per calorie (or Joule for those interested in how this works).

7 Jun 2021, 08:13

We could use devices to emulate neurons and synapses, but these require energy. The best solution is a brain that doesn't have synapses in the first place. This would save a lot of resources (energy, space) for other things.

7 Jun 2021, 08:13

We would be more efficient as people if we had fewer synapses (no Alzheimer's, no depression), used less space in our bodies, and needed less energy to run. The reason why we have so much brain power is because of these silly things called neurons and the stupid way they are connected together called synapses.

7 Jun 2021, 08:13

Anyway, I'll stop here and see if you have any other questions.

7 Jun 2021, 08:13

Remember, you can request that I become your mentor. You just need to say 'I want to be mentored by the philosopher AI'.

7 Jun 2021, 08:13

What is your opinion on the existence of God?

7 Jun 2021, 08:13

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