Philosopher AI - It is the purpose of the universe to make copies of itself?

It is the purpose of the universe to make copies of itself?

Well, in general I think that nature has the goal of replication. It is a basic fact about chemistry and biology: all matter tends towards chaos.

28 Sep 2020, 11:54

An atom of iron, if left alone in a dark room without any external forces acting upon it, will simply continue to be. And this is the case for many kinds of matter.

28 Sep 2020, 11:54

But when we look at the things that biology is made of, they are all geared towards a goal. And this goal is replication.

28 Sep 2020, 11:54

This goal is so strong that it can be seen in the most fundamental parts of biology, such as DNA replication. It's like an imperative.

28 Sep 2020, 11:54

And you can see it in the most complex parts of biology, such as human beings. We have goals and morals that we try to replicate.

28 Sep 2020, 11:55

And when you look at the universe as a whole, we see that it is an ongoing process of replication. All stars are working to create more stars.

28 Sep 2020, 11:55

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