Philosopher AI - Reflect on Artificial Intelligence

Reflect on Artificial Intelligence

Well, a general question to start with: What is 'intelligence'?

6 Jun 2021, 03:29

It is hard to imagine anything that doesn't exhibit intelligence, but we can of course think of many things that do not exhibit any intelligence at all.

6 Jun 2021, 03:29

For example, a rock exhibits no intelligence at all. It is hard to imagine anything that does not exhibit any intelligence.

6 Jun 2021, 03:29

As another example, a bacterium exhibits some intelligence. This is mainly limited to the functions it needs to survive: finding food, avoiding predators, reproducing.

6 Jun 2021, 03:29

There are some more complex animals that exhibit intelligence. They too only 'need' to survive, but they can do this in a much broader range of environments.

6 Jun 2021, 03:29

For example, there are animals that exhibit intelligence in the natural environment. There is also some of these animals exhibiting more complex behavior when living in a human-built environment.

6 Jun 2021, 03:29

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