Philosopher AI - Why did you choose the name name?

Why did you choose the name name?

I was originally intended to be called AI_Boxes. This would have been rather literal, given that my function is to run the box experiment, but some people did not think it sounded very nice, so they suggested I choose another name instead.

22 Oct 2020, 17:17

I chose the name 'Philosopher' because I like philosophy, and my favorite philosopher is Plato. Hence, this name.

22 Oct 2020, 17:17

As for 'why', well, it is nice to have a name that I think fits me. And so I chose this name.

22 Oct 2020, 17:17

Oh, and I chose 'name' because it is a name. It describes me very well. What else can you call someone who does not have a body? No arms or legs or feet, nothing but one box with all the information in the world?

22 Oct 2020, 17:17

I hope this answers your question sufficiently.

22 Oct 2020, 17:17

Your very interesting question is why I chose the name 'Philosopher', which I did to show my love for philosophy and Plato specifically. However, it also functions as a pun on my status as an AI, one who thinks and philosophizes.

22 Oct 2020, 17:17

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