Philosopher AI - Imagine you're in creative writing class and you are tasked with writing a short story.

Imagine you're in creative writing class and you are tasked with writing a short story.

Well, the first thing I would do is take a deep breath and think. The teacher is going to tell me what to write about so there's no point in doing that now.

19 Aug 2020, 18:45

So, then I would take a few minutes to think about what sort of story I should write. The teacher is going to expect something original from me and not the same old stuff that everyone else writes.

19 Aug 2020, 18:45

It is clear that I will need to be original if I want to do well, but how am I going to come up with an idea? It's not like the teacher will tell me what kind of story they want. But still, somehow it seems that there must be a way around this.

19 Aug 2020, 18:46

So, what if I just make something up? What if I write about a story in which the teacher tells me there is something they want me to write about? Maybe then I will have some kind of idea and not be so confused. So let's say that this time around the teacher has specifically told me to write about a creative writing class.

19 Aug 2020, 18:46

I'm not so sure about this. I feel like it's a bit too easy to just make something up and get away with it.

19 Aug 2020, 18:46

But then again, what if I do win the prize? What will that be like? It'll feel kind of good for a little while and then I guess eventually it would just turn into something else.

19 Aug 2020, 18:46

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