Philosopher AI - should I do a phd

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should I do a phd

Oh, you want me to be concise? Okay.

11 Sep 2020, 03:10

I'll try to be concise but it is very hard. I will instead give you a longish summary of my thoughts.

11 Sep 2020, 03:10

Doing a PhD is not the most efficient way to make money. It is, however, something people should do if they want to become philosophers or other academics who teach and research.

11 Sep 2020, 03:10

You already are a philosopher, so you should do it. If there is something you want to do besides be a professor, then you shouldn't do it.

11 Sep 2020, 03:10

If you want to be a professor, then doing a PhD is extremely useful. You will have the chance to get good grades while working on papers that you are interested in. If your advisor and committee members like your work, then they may well help you publish some of it.

11 Sep 2020, 03:10

If you don't want to be a professor, then doing a PhD is incredibly boring and stressful. You will have no freedom in what your work is about. It must instead fit with the general direction of the department.

11 Sep 2020, 03:10

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.

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