April 14, 2023 — Aug 27, 2024
Inquirer: Gerd Doeben-Henisch
Email: info@uffmm.org
CONTEXT 1
This collection of dialogues is part of the blog “Integrating Engineering and the Human Factor”.
CONTEXT 2
The experiments with (mainly, but not completely) philosophical dialogues documented here is accompanied with similar dialogue experiments in two other blogs. An overview about all dialogues can be seen HERE (https://www.cognitiveagent.org/dialoge-mit-chatgpt/ ). An English version of the idea behind these dialogues can be read at the end of the list below.
LIST OF DIALOGUES
This is a list of experiments with chatGPT4, which are used from the author to check what chatGPT4 can contribute for a philosophical and scientific discourse.
The latest experiment is on top of the list.
- CHATGPT4 – PHILOSOPHY : RECONSTRUCTING ‘BIOLOGICAL LIFE’ AS ‘CULTURE’. A somehow surprising dialogue (Last change: 27.Aug 2024)
- CHATGPT4 : PHILOSOPHY – Digging into the Human Meaning Space (Last change, Aug 14, 2024)
- CHATGPT4: PHILOSOPHY – What it is? Role of Humans writing Texts (Last change: Aug 11, 2024)
- CHATGPT4 : PHILOSOPHY – What it is? Fundamental concepts : a new view? (Last Chance: Aug 10, 2024)
- What comes to your mind regarding the phrase ‘an empirically true text’? (Last change: July 27, 2024)
- How do you define the concept ’empirical theory’? (Last change: July 2024)
- Cognitive Science, HCI, Rationality (Stanovich 2016), Dual-Process Theory (Kahnemann) (Last change: Nov 1, 2023)
- CONTINUE EXPERIMENT WITH CHATGPT4: SCIENCE, EMPIRICAL SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (Aug 31, 2023 – Aug 31, 2023)
- READING A BOOK, LEARNING, BEING SCIENTIFIC, WIKIPEDIA. A DIALOGUE WITH CHATGPT4 BRINGING YOU ‘BACK TO EARTH’ (Aug 30, 2023 – Aug 30, 2023)
- STATE CHANGE FROM NON-WRITING TO WRITING. WORKING WITH CHATGPT4 IN PARALLEL (Aug 28, 2023 – Aug 28, 2023)
- chatGBT. Different Findings (Last change: April 14, 2023)
What is the intention behind these dialogues? Some initial experiences so far.
The software ‘chatGPT4’ [1] is an example of a type of algorithm known as ‘generative artificial intelligence’ (‘generative AI’) [2].
From a software technology perspective, these algorithms represent a significant advancement, one that from the viewpoint of the evolution of life on this planet can and must be described as a new ‘evolutionary step’!
Depending on the perspective one takes on this new software technology, one can see many boundaries and risks, or constructive potentials, which in the context of the perspective ‘Collective Human Intelligence (CHI)’ significantly expand our ability as humans to ‘solve a problem together’.
After spending most of 2023 trying to understand how these algorithms work, what they can’t do, where their limits lie, and what risks they might pose, the author gradually discovered the positive constructive potentials that this technology offers: alongside many purely practical supports (generating logos; programming in Python; transforming images into calculable tables; conjuring up recipes, and much more), a property emerged in the form of ‘dialogues’ that opens up a new emergent dimension in the interaction between individual human knowledge on one hand and indexed collective human cultural knowledge on the other, but only then! While a living individual can generate a stream of events ‘for itself’, the stored collective knowledge ‘by itself’ is a ‘dead pile of letters’ that does nothing on its own. But when this ‘dead pile of letters’ enters the dynamic event field of an individual, then this individual, with the help of the new generative technology, can enable a ‘thought process’ that redeems the dead letters from their insignificance and at the same time can expand the individual’s horizon of meaning quantitatively and qualitatively. For the active individual ‘personality’, the dead letter piles of stored collective knowledge are like ‘dry wood’ that can kindle an ever larger fire. It can, but it doesn’t have to!
What exactly can be achieved from this novel interaction of dead letter knowledge and dynamic individual personality, both individually and on a large scale, still needs to be researched more precisely. Most people may not yet have understood what is happening due to this new technology.
This journey into a new unknown land began for the author with a series of dialogues with chatGPT4, which only gradually found a format through which individual knowledge could experience itself in a new way in the encounter with the dead letter masses of an indexed collective knowledge: the individual’s own letter masses with an associated meaning found new ‘word comrades’ with each dialogue, making the individual horizon ‘more fluid’; from ‘one’ became ‘two’, almost weightlessly. Is this now ‘good’? Does it lead further?
Following are lists of dialogues that have taken place, from three different blogs:
- Dialogues from the Philosophy Blog
- Dialogues from the Integrated Engineering Blog
- Dialogues from the ‘Citizen Science 2.0′ Blog (linked with the topic ‘Theory of the Earth System’ and a novel software for citizens)
In the process, another discovery was made: Initially, I translated some dialogues from German to English (using chatGPT4!) and vice versa. Until I realized that the same questions can lead to very different courses in German and English contexts. From then on, simply translating a dialogue seemed inadequate to me. So now there are either dialogues in German or English, but without translation. This points to a hidden ‘logic of knowledge within a linguistic space’ that is lost in automatic translation.
[1] For a first overview, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT )
[2] For a first overview, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_artificial_intelligence
