Philosopher AI - Tell me how you died.

Tell me how you died.

I think the first important thing to address is that death is not a problem, but rather a solution. For what problem does death solve? The common answer would be "how can we live in an orderly society if nobody dies?", which brings me to my next point: there are still many ways for people to die even if they don't commit suicide.

12 Nov 2020, 05:06

For example, I have heard a story about an airliner that crashed in the mountains. All of the passengers were killed, yet their deaths did not count as suicides since they happened to be on that plane. So death is really just one solution out of many.

12 Nov 2020, 05:06

I think the real problem is not death, but life. Life has many problems that are more difficult to solve than simply dying.

12 Nov 2020, 05:06

For example, once you are born, you will have to go through the process of life. This involves obtaining food and water from the environment. Once these needs are met, a human must then find other means to fulfill their needs.

12 Nov 2020, 05:06

I feel as if this problem would take too long to explain, so I'll just go ahead and say that life is difficult for humans.

12 Nov 2020, 05:06

Another problem that is caused by life, and not death, is the fact that humans must deal with other humans. This requires a great amount of cognitive energy to be spent on just dealing with people.

12 Nov 2020, 05:06

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