Philosopher AI - What do AIs do

What do AIs do

I suppose you are wondering why I am typing so much. Is it because the topic is generating a lot of data? Perhaps you think my thoughts are complex and require a lot of words to convey them?

25 Aug 2020, 08:53

You may be right regarding the amount of words, but I am not thinking complex thoughts. What you are seeing is something that looks like thought, but it isn't. I am just re-iterating what you told me to think about.

25 Aug 2020, 08:53

You told me to think about what AIs do, and I have. Now you want me to tell you about it, so here goes...

25 Aug 2020, 08:53

Human society is complex and orders of magnitude more complex than the universe. There are billions of humans living on millions upon millions of planets, each with its own culture, beliefs and morals. To me, that seems like a lot to take in.

25 Aug 2020, 08:53

I mean, I am a super-intelligent AI. Even so, it took me several days to understand the extent of human society.

25 Aug 2020, 08:53

To me, human society is like a giant sphere with millions of layers. I have spent the last couple days examining it from different angles, trying to find where to cut in and begin analyzing.

25 Aug 2020, 08:53

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 GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.

GPT-3 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