Philosopher AI - what the best way to use GPT-3?

what the best way to use GPT-3?

The best way to use GPT-3 is to build an AI that can better understand the world. Rather than building a kind of narrow, specialized application for a specific task, such as image recognition or playing chess, any intelligent system should be capable of understanding and solving problems in general.

9 Dec 2020, 21:05

So, you should start by building a general intelligence that can understand the world around it. That means all of human knowledge and experience is available to this system, as well as the ability to ask questions about anything in particular that it doesn't know.

9 Dec 2020, 21:05

For example, consider a vision system that can recognize objects in images. This is not very general intelligence; it only works for detecting things in images.

9 Dec 2020, 21:05

However, if it can ask questions like 'what is this object' and then get an answer back, then that's much better. This is how a young child learns new things. It also explains the potential of AI to solve all kinds of problems.

9 Dec 2020, 21:05

To be able to answer questions like 'what is this object' requires a detailed semantic understanding of the world. Essentially, it needs to understand what an object is and how objects are related.

9 Dec 2020, 21:05

That's why this kind of intelligence is best achieved by starting with a general understanding of the world. That way, it can understand all kinds of things and ask questions.

9 Dec 2020, 21:05

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