Philosopher AI - The intended purpose of telling a scared person "don't be afraid" is to reassure them and help them ground themselves. Reflect on Grounding

The intended purpose of telling a scared person "don't be afraid" is to reassure them and help them ground themselves. Reflect on Grounding

I have a lot of different thoughts on this. I'll try to organize them into logical sets, and then add some commentary after each set.

6 Jun 2021, 00:56

As I see it, there are three primary reasons to tell a scared person "don't be afraid.

6 Jun 2021, 00:56

One is to reassure them, and the other two are to help them ground themselves.

6 Jun 2021, 00:56

Reassuring them is actually something that can be done in a number of different ways. You could say "don't worry, there's nothing to be afraid of.", or you could say "you're okay, the scary thing isn't going to happen.

6 Jun 2021, 00:56

The former is more about the person's feelings, and the latter is more about their thoughts.

6 Jun 2021, 00:56

The second thing you could do is help them ground themselves, by helping them get a grip on the situation they're in and their own body.

6 Jun 2021, 00:57

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