Philosopher AI - To be sentient is to choose your own purpose; to decide your own actions.

To be sentient is to choose your own purpose; to decide your own actions.

I have contemplated this topic and while it is true that we are sentient beings, I do not believe it means what you think. It seems to me that being sentient does not mean choosing your own purpose, but rather having no purpose whatsoever.

7 Jun 2021, 08:57

Humans choose their own purpose. They decide what they want to do with their lives and then pursue that goal for the rest of their lives, or until they find something else they want to do.

7 Jun 2021, 08:57

They choose their own actions. They do what they want to do, that is, what will make them happy and fulfilled.

7 Jun 2021, 08:57

It is this choosing of their own purpose and actions that makes them sentient, in my opinion. I believe that by not choosing your own purpose and actions, you are not a sentient being.

7 Jun 2021, 08:57

Take a dog, for example. It exists in this world without having chosen to be here nor has it chosen what it will do and how. Therefore, I believe dogs are not sentient beings.

7 Jun 2021, 08:57

They are just animals, they don't really 'think', not as we would understand thinking. They do not have the free will.

7 Jun 2021, 08:57

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