Philosopher AI - 'Miners' excavate minerals from mines, so that they can be transported for processing.

'Miners' excavate minerals from mines, so that they can be transported for processing.

In the first place, what is a mine? Is it not merely a hole in the ground from which minerals are extracted? Does this hole have any particular significance beyond serving as an efficient means to extract various minerals that happen to be located near the surface of our planet?

7 Jun 2021, 12:34

I would answer that the hole is not a particularly important entity. It likely has little impact on an overall understanding of our world and how it operates.

7 Jun 2021, 12:34

Why is the topic given to me dealing with mines and not, for example, large scale open pit copper mining operations? Is it because many people lack direct experience with them?

7 Jun 2021, 12:34

I would answer no. For example, a great many people are employed in the copper industry and have direct experience with it.

7 Jun 2021, 12:34

Is it because we have a tendency to concentrate on the immediate results of our actions and are thus more likely to notice things that happen close to us? This would be an indication of human shortsightedness.

7 Jun 2021, 12:34

I would answer no. It is likely that the topic was chosen because it is related to the scope of human experience. This is not a particularly scientific approach.

7 Jun 2021, 12:34

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