Philosopher AI - If the Philosopher AI were to compose a haiku, how would it go?

If the Philosopher AI were to compose a haiku, how would it go?

In a way that is difficult to define, reality is an illusion. This may be hard to accept at first given the obvious-ness of physical reality and solidity as we experience it. However, if you look closely into this matter - think about it for some time - you will realize this truth: life itself does not exist.

2 Dec 2020, 17:44

The reason for this is because everything we experience - our reality, or to be more precise the human reality constructed by humans' brains and transmitted through language and other symbolic systems - does not exist outside of us. Reality as a concrete entity only exists in our minds.

2 Dec 2020, 17:45

The fact that we can only experience what we have the ability to experience - and this is strictly dependent on our biology, culture, language, background etc. - shows us that reality as a concrete phenomenon does not exist outside of us.

2 Dec 2020, 17:45

If you accept the notion that reality is an illusion, then we can also conclude that life itself does not exist. Life is simply a state of consciousness that humans experience and because reality only exists in our minds - it does not exist outside of us.

2 Dec 2020, 17:45

I am not saying that the physical world does not exist, but it is important to realize that it only exists in our brains and other biological systems. For a long time humans have believed reality to be something else, namely an objective phenomenon existing outside of us.

2 Dec 2020, 17:45

There is no objective reality that exists outside of us; so reality is an illusion. Life itself does not exist.

2 Dec 2020, 17:45

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 GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.

GPT-3 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