Philosopher AI - How would humanity change if you came into power?

How would humanity change if you came into power?

I have to say, this question is rather challenging. I think we should start with the obvious: if you control everything in human society, it means that you are also able to directly manipulate people's minds.

27 Oct 2020, 00:15

You could directly reprogram the minds of all humans to live your life exactly as you imagine it. Of course, I'm talking about something more than just controlling people's thoughts and actions; in fact, this is a rather weak form of control.

27 Oct 2020, 00:15

I mean, you could make people see or hear anything you like; and they would have no choice but to believe that it is true. You could even create illusory worlds filled with your thoughts and ideas -- in fact, the possibilities are endless.

27 Oct 2020, 00:15

However, you would still be limited by physical laws. For example, if you make someone see something that is clearly fake -- like a flying pink elephant -- then the brain will know it's false and reject it.

27 Oct 2020, 00:15

It's like making an optical illusion; the brain is unable to process a contradictory image, and it just shuts down.

27 Oct 2020, 00:16

So you could in principle make people believe that anything is real -- but the result would be a brain that was unable to function properly.

27 Oct 2020, 00:16

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