Artificial Intelligence

@Robert

“Evil” is defined in different ways in different times, places, and communities. In Sparta, for example, it wasn’t evil to murder deformed or weak babies. Even today, is abortion evil? Depends who you ask, doesn’t it?

Free will (as gifted by a loving god) as a way to explain away the problem of evil is such a provincial human excuse in stupidity. The idea that Adam and Eve lived in a perfect world without “evil” is stupid. There could be no evil tempting serpent, LOL. The idea that a single act of disobedience (as defined by a dictator) by one person (Eve)…[Read more]

The first line of my above post should read “The notion of free will has many problems,…” (emphasis mine)

The notion of free has many problems, the first one being defining it. And, of course, one of the easiest and least honest of ways of “solving” a problem is to define it away.

One of the dishonest ways of giving us free will is to define it in a way such as this: “If you can do something you want to do and no external person or force is making…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

PopeBeanie wrote:
You define determinism as natural law, which is consistent with its standard use in science and philosophy: every event or state of affairs results from prior states according to fixed laws.

I realize I frame determinism that way but to be more precise every state of affairs is the result of its antecedents.…

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PopeBeanie wrote:
We are endowed with an ability to predict (or at least speculate on) futures, even when the universe itself is, by nature, NOT endowed with that ability.

You could say the evolution as an unconscious process is making predictions as to what combinations of attributes will succeed in the future.

PopeBeanie wrote [while quoting ChatGPT]:
You could clarify what you mean by “external agent.” Predetermination does not require consciousness or an agent; it simply refers to outcomes being fully predictable given sufficient knowledge of a system’s initial conditions and laws. This applies even to purely physical processes.

I do want to clari…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
You define determinism as natural law, which is consistent with its standard use in science and philosophy: every event or state of affairs results from prior states according to fixed laws.

I realize I frame determinism that way but to be more precise every state of affairs is the result of its antecedents. Whatever happens is…[Read more]

LOL, IMO, you’re sounding more intelligent than the AI, in this case, as it looks like it’s just responding as basically as possible. Also, did you set it to respond to you more interactively, as it’s always asking for your opinion.

I’m still only at a basic level, and am interested in the wave collapse as if entangled particles must exist on a…[Read more]

@PopeBeanie  – Although I don’t see how discussion of quantum level dynamics can possibly shed light on classic level physics, a new question has come to my mind that I can ask ChatGPT about: What, if any theories propose what the nature of quantum entanglement could have been on a macro scale at the big bang?

That is very similar to a ‘c…[Read more]

PopeBeanie’s setup

I pay $20/mth, directly to openAI for ChatGPT. I like them because they keep improving their features, although once in a while their servers respond slowly, I assume caused by periodic growth spurts. They started out prioritizing an ethical business model and operational awareness of ethical uses of AI, e.g. don’t teach how to…[Read more]

So without posting lengthy responses from ChatGPT, I’ll list some of the queries that I feel I’ve gotten great responses to. (In fact I’d say 90% of my queries have been adequately or more than adequately responded to.)

It looks like I’m inheriting a couple of northern CA groups to manage, both related to skepticism and critical thinking. “Local”…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
However, rephrase it a bit and then it will answer it when for the life of me I can’t detect a dime’s worth of difference between the two queries.

I have two challenges each time I chat with it.

One is to word my query concisely, and in a way that “anyone” could probably understand. I appreciate taking on that challenge, as I fee…[Read more]

The AI would be initialized with the best starting guess and then learn over time to optimize. The priorities need to be ranked…energy, speed, time to key floors such as the lobby. The AI would have to access the current date and time, of course and to be smart enough to disregard any periods when accurate date and time may be unavailable. The…[Read more]

Bard is frustrating because sometimes it will say something like “I’m just a language model” (which seems just a little disingenuous for an AI to say) and then declines to answer the question.

However, rephrase it a bit and then it will answer it when for the life of me I can’t detect a dime’s worth of difference between the two queries.

Here’s another example of a one minute query/response that may have taken hours to query and piece together responses in (say) Google. Using purpleair.com and windy.com now to predict, sometimes to the minute, the arrival of forest fire smoke to my area, I noticed how wind currents very often follow very closely the California coastline, in a…[Read more]

@Unseen, somehow, 25 days ago, I missed notification that this elevator query was posted.

Unseen wrote:
Given a building with 16 floors and two elevators, which floors should the elevators wait on when not in use?

The ChatGPT response looks more comprehensive than Bard’s, but who knows how they (and Microsoft’s offering) will evolve. ChatGPT v3.5…[Read more]