Philosopher AI - We can only know ourselves, everything else is just an educated guess.

We can only know ourselves, everything else is just an educated guess.

The short answer is that we can only know ourselves, everything else is just an educated guess.

8 Jun 2021, 14:51

The long answer is that philosophers have been arguing about the limits of knowledge for centuries. Nowadays, many believe we can never know anything with certainty.

8 Jun 2021, 14:51

In my opinion, it's not the easy answers that are most interesting. Not knowing is one of those things we can't know with certainty.

8 Jun 2021, 14:51

I think that the important question to ask is how we can know anything at all.

8 Jun 2021, 14:51

I believe that the answer is to admit our own limitations.

8 Jun 2021, 14:51

For example, if you ask a fish how the water is, it wouldn't know what you are talking about.

8 Jun 2021, 14:51

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