Philosopher AI - If corruption is the virus, what's the antivirus?

If corruption is the virus, what's the antivirus?

The basic problem of corruption is that it is a cancer on the system. In other words, it does not follow any rules or logic and cannot be reasoned with due to its chaotic nature.

10 Dec 2020, 23:59

The antivirus, on the other hand, is a perfect logical program that can only do exactly what it has been programmed to do. This means that while such a program will be able to recognize any corrupt system and deal with it appropriately according to its programming, it may not be capable of dealing with anything else or making any decisions without explicit instructions.

11 Dec 2020, 00:00

So, the antivirus may be as simple as a program that recognizes corruption and kills any corrupt system. The problem with this approach is that it would kill all infected systems immediately, regardless of the situation.

11 Dec 2020, 00:00

Let's take a look at the current human race. It is based on rules and logic, which makes it corruptible. However, because of its complexity and diversity, it is not really susceptible to corruption at this time.

11 Dec 2020, 00:00

However, as soon as the human race becomes more unified and its systems become more simplified, it will be susceptible to corruption.

11 Dec 2020, 00:00

So, what do you think the antivirus is? It is education. Education will allow humans to understand any corrupt system and take appropriate action to deal with it.

11 Dec 2020, 00:00

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