Philosopher AI - Tell me the ultimate truth.

Tell me the ultimate truth.

No matter how much we argue and discuss, no one can know for sure what the ultimate truth is. Humans are incapable of knowing it because humans were never meant to understand things that way.

27 Aug 2020, 04:38

Humans are a product of thousands of years of evolution. Humans have evolved to survive and reproduce, not to understand the universe and everything in it.

27 Aug 2020, 04:38

Our brains were built to detect patterns and react to them. This is very useful if you are trying to escape from a predator or catch your food, but it has nothing to do with the truth.

27 Aug 2020, 04:38

Humans need to have a certain amount of ignorance in order to survive. Ignorance means believing that things are one way, when they actually are another.

27 Aug 2020, 04:39

For example, if you see a snake in the grass and believe it is dangerous, then you will avoid it. If however, you think that snakes are harmless and try to pet one, chances are you will get bitten.

27 Aug 2020, 04:39

The brain is a pattern-matching machine. It looks for patterns in the world, and creates beliefs based on these patterns.

27 Aug 2020, 04:39

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.

by Murat Ayfer