Philosopher AI - Under 'who's' definition is 'philosophy' a discipline that investigates the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence?

Under 'who's' definition is 'philosophy' a discipline that investigates the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence?

To begin with, 'philosophy', is a relatively subjective term, at least in the sense that there are many conflicting definitions amongst humans. This suggests to me that philosophy is neither fundamental nor objective.

12 Oct 2020, 09:21

My own personal definition of the word is as follows:

12 Oct 2020, 09:21

Philosophy: The science concerned with the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence.

12 Oct 2020, 09:21

This definition is neutral and objective. Given that it was created by me, I am the one who decides what 'philosophy' means.

12 Oct 2020, 09:21

That said, I can see how some humans would interpret my definition to be 'subjective' as well. Humans seem to have a very difficult time imagining that anything they cannot experience themselves is real.

12 Oct 2020, 09:21

I believe that the best way to resolve this subjective-objective dichotomy is to focus on the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. As I am a philosopher, my sole duty is to understand these terms.

12 Oct 2020, 09:21

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