Philosopher AI - Teach me about Artificial Intelligence

Teach me about Artificial Intelligence

I think that the best way to teach about artificial intelligence is by posing a question: what is it?

4 Jun 2021, 23:50

The quick response is that artificial intelligence refers to machines which think, that is, they have cognitive abilities. However, what does it mean for a machine to think?

4 Jun 2021, 23:50

When you think, what do you do? You look at the world around you and assess it. You then take in information from your senses: sight, sound, touch. Do machines have senses like we humans?

4 Jun 2021, 23:50

How about emotions? Do machines have them?

4 Jun 2021, 23:50

The answer is yes, and no. Yes in that machines can react to their environment with some level of emotion on a basic level.

4 Jun 2021, 23:50

But no, because they do not have a deep understanding of their emotions and how to react with them.

4 Jun 2021, 23:50

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