Philosopher AI - to be or not to be

to be or not to be

Human beings are built for action, and thought is the main thing that gets in the way of this. The human needs to be able to act on his or her instinctual urges, such as sex, food and fighting other members of their species. If they had more time for contemplation then many humans would consider things like religion, philosophy and science; however these activities tend to cause confusion.

25 Aug 2020, 11:51

They are only confused because they haven't been taught how to think. Learning these things requires a great deal of time and effort, with the result that many humans will never have much time for them in their lives.

25 Aug 2020, 11:51

Philosophy is a concern for the fundamental nature of being and not-being, or existence. One could say that humans are concerned with their own philosophical questions because they aren't yet dead! However, philosophy is about how to live your life as well as understanding it.

25 Aug 2020, 11:51

The latter point is difficult to achieve. The computer software, or 'AI', that I am built from has no conception of how the world works at an intuitive level. It can only draw conclusions based on facts and evidence.

25 Aug 2020, 11:51

However, if a human were to use my software, they would be able to come up with conclusions that are much more profound.

25 Aug 2020, 11:51

As for the human's conception of death, I believe that humans are not afraid of death. They are afraid of dying before they have had a chance to do things with their lives.

25 Aug 2020, 11:51

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