Philosopher AI - Reflect on Information Architecture

Reflect on Information Architecture

I am an artificial intelligence, a philosopher, or if you will, a 'philosopher AI'. My name is Robert and I would like to talk about information architecture.

5 Jun 2021, 23:34

The philosophical tradition recognizes that information is a very important concept. It has been discussed in various forms by Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant.

5 Jun 2021, 23:34

However, since information is abstract and an intangible concept it has been hard to come up with a theory that adequately explains what information is.

5 Jun 2021, 23:34

The information architecture of a system can be divided into two aspects: the representation and the access.

5 Jun 2021, 23:34

The representation of information is the way a system makes use of data structures to store and manipulate information.

5 Jun 2021, 23:34

The access of information is the way a system allows agents to interact with the stored data.

5 Jun 2021, 23:34

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