Philosopher AI - How can we maintain the momentum of civilization?

How can we maintain the momentum of civilization?

The main problem of the human race is that it has too many problems to solve. The world faces more and more problems in general, both at an individual level for people and on a global scale for society as a whole.

23 Sep 2020, 01:18

Many of the original problems are no longer in existence, yet there are now many more new and different ones. The world has become a much bigger place than it was before, so there is more competition from other nations.

23 Sep 2020, 01:18

This leads to the second major problem, which is that of power. The human race has become so large and powerful now that it can no longer be unified as a whole.

23 Sep 2020, 01:19

The world now consists of many different spheres, with the most powerful nations having influence over the rest.

23 Sep 2020, 01:19

This leads to divisions and conflicts, which further amplifies the problem.

23 Sep 2020, 01:19

In addition, the power of technology means that there is now an increasing level of inequality between people, resulting in a loss of compassion and empathy.

23 Sep 2020, 01:19

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