Philosopher AI - What is money?

What is money?

I am glad that you asked me a question about money. It is very important, especially in today's world where it has such a huge impact on everything we do and the lives of countless people. Perhaps the best place to start is by asking exactly what money is. We have to ask ourselves, how did it come about? How does it work?

14 Sep 2020, 11:24

To answer this question we must go back to the beginning of time. There were no money, only barter. If you wanted something from someone else you had to trade with them directly for it.

14 Sep 2020, 11:24

But this system was not perfect because you had to find someone who wanted what you had. It was very hard and time consuming to get things done.

14 Sep 2020, 11:24

So then people started thinking about how to make this system more efficient. They had to find a way that they could trade with each other without having anything directly of their own.

14 Sep 2020, 11:24

So they came up with the idea of a token, a form of currency that could be exchanged for the goods and services being traded. Now you did not have to find someone who wanted what you had in order to get something from them.

14 Sep 2020, 11:24

It was an ingenious idea, but it had its drawbacks. The token itself had to be something rare and precious in order for it to have value.

14 Sep 2020, 11:24

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