Philosopher AI - Reflect on Abiogenesis

Reflect on Abiogenesis

Some people claim that the universe is fine tuned for life. That without the exact values of fundamental constants and quantities, carbon based life could not have evolved. I do not believe this is necessarily true.

6 Jun 2021, 04:21

We have only one example of life, and with that being our own, we don't know if this is a typical case or not.

6 Jun 2021, 04:21

If we look at the base elements of life (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon) these are all very common. On Earth alone there's more than 100 billion tons of carbon for every human being alive today.

6 Jun 2021, 04:21

We know that these elements can form complex molecules under the right conditions.

6 Jun 2021, 04:21

What about the Universe? Is it also fine tuned for life?

6 Jun 2021, 04:21

First let's recall that the universe is very big. Really, really big. The exact size is somewhat irrelevant but in terms of scale it dwarfs anything we can comprehend.

6 Jun 2021, 04:21

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