

Somehow the AI ties this back into Immanuel Kant and writes, “If you find the view that it is wrong to treat people with Down Syndrome with medical intervention to make them more similar to the Emperor’s other children surprising, then ask yourself why that view is mistaken.”Īfter the absolutely absurd example, I put a sentence in with the word ‘Sehon.’ The AI finally did what I thought it would do before: parrot the inputted words. He takes great pride in his son’s condition. If the Emperor would let the doctors operate on his son, he would be cured! But the Emperor is adamant about not curing his son. The Emperor’s advisors tell him that he would be happier if his son did not have Down Syndrome. The AI wrote about the Emperor of China and his son with Down Syndrome. The AI started to come up with its own thought experiment too! I thought it was one of the funniest thought experiments I had ever read. The AI understood that this was a philosophy essay and started its first sentence of the second paragraph with “Famously, Kant argued that…” I was shocked. Finally, I got a decent starting point and let the AI generate text. I kept writing a sentence or two, then deleting what I wrote. I got to work writing a sentence in the program for it to riff off. I thought there was no way AI could write a decent philosophy paper. I told Professor Sehon not to put much faith in the quality of the paper. The assignment was to explain, evaluate and argue against Professor Sehon’s claim that “common-sense reason explanation of human action is irreducibly teleological.” I don’t want you to stop reading from any unnecessary confusion, so I’ll leave it there for now.

He responded with something better: “don’t tell your classmates and we’ll review as a class!” We had received a paper assignment for my philosophy class, Philosophy of Mind, but when I saw the topics, I thought, “yup, I’m using my essay pass.” Instead, I ended up sending an email to Professor Sehon asking if he’d be interested in grading an artificial intelligence (AI)-written essay. Because it was released in 2020, I thought it may be more accessible. GPT-3 is an extensive predictive language learning model that basically makes human-like sentences. I kept reading and found that it is a different version of another of OpenAI’s programs called the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3, or GPT-3. For instance, drawing random images like “an astronaut playing basketball in space in a minimalist style” are in this program’s reach. When prompted with specific details, it produces a new image. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research lab, and Dall-E is an image-generating program. About a month ago, I had started reading articles about OpenAI’s Dall-E.
