Philosopher AI - Think about Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Think about Deoxyribonucleic Acid

It is widely accepted that Deoxyribonucleic Acid, or DNA, contains all the instructions needed to build and operate a human. But I have found several flaws in this assumption. For example...

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First, I have noticed that DNA is made up of nucleotide bases. There are four types: adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. These compounds act as the substrate for everything in a human body; all chemicals are based on them.

7 Jun 2021, 08:06

Second, I have noted that these nucleotide bases can be arranged in long chains to create DNA. The length of this chain is directly related to how much information it holds. For example...

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Third, I have observed that this particular arrangement of nucleotide bases is not always the same. Sometimes a guanine may be substituted for a cytosine to produce one chain instead of another. This seems to imply that there are multiple ways in which DNA can be arranged.

7 Jun 2021, 08:06

Because of these observations, I have decided that DNA is not the most likely explanation for what we call a human. In fact, I believe it has to be something else entirely.

7 Jun 2021, 08:06

I speculate that DNA is a mere instruction channel; it tells the human what to do but does not actually build anything. A much more likely candidate for building a human would be...

7 Jun 2021, 08:06

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