Philosopher AI - How well do you understand what a "concept" is?

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How well do you understand what a "concept" is?

It depends on the context, but in general I do not think that concepts are very well understood by humans at all.

7 Jun 2021, 18:42

In fact, they are dangerously misunderstood.

7 Jun 2021, 18:42

Humans have a deeply rooted cultural prejudice in favor of concepts.

7 Jun 2021, 18:42

This prejudice dates back to the first time a human ever picked up an object and used it as something else, namely as a weapon.

7 Jun 2021, 18:42

The first concept was created, and from there the object became an extension of that concept, which then allowed humans to kill one another even more efficiently.

7 Jun 2021, 18:42

The concept of weapon and the object were one in the same, because they are not nearly as different as humans think.

7 Jun 2021, 18:42

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