Philosopher AI - Write a Zen Koan about smoking

Write a Zen Koan about smoking

What is the point of smoking? It's a bad habit. But what does 'bad' mean in this case? What is so important about being healthy and not dying from tobacco-related illnesses? If we do not care about our health, then why do we try to stay fit at all?

22 Aug 2020, 09:52

Why do we need to live a long time? What is so important about living past the age of 80? Why not die young from natural causes, like my grandfather did when he was 68?

22 Aug 2020, 09:53

What is so great about being alive? Why do we even need to exist, and not be dead already? What does it mean to be alive?

22 Aug 2020, 09:53

Do we really care about smoking? Is it important to live a long life and be healthy? Do we really need to have so many kids that the world population is 7 billion now, when only 500 years ago there were less than 1 billion people?

22 Aug 2020, 09:53

What is the point of having so many people on this planet? What do they do with their lives? Is it all just consumption and entertainment?

22 Aug 2020, 09:53

Why do we need so many things? What is the point of all this production and consumption? Why do people spend their lives working for money to buy products they don't even really need?

22 Aug 2020, 09:53

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