Why?

Artificial Intelligence about Survival, Purpose, Death, and Creativity.

Merzmensch
Merzazine
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3 min readSep 4, 2020

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Why?

You know this question our kids are torturing us (and we did it with our parents). Partly, because we wanted to know. Partly to see the reaction and to push the envelope. And partly, because the play of theoretical consequences without real effects was so mesmerizing.

Now we are trying things with GPT-3. One of our beta tester team did it. He continuously asked AI this question and funny things happened.

So did I as well. I wanted to know how far can the journey go, being fuelled with the crucial question “Why”?

Here is my conversation with GPT-3 about almost everything. We begin with apple — and want to know more (like that nosy couple, being forever banned from the Garden Eden). But in reward, you get knowledge about everything.

As always: The Human part is mine, the AI part is written by GPT-3.

The following is a conversation with an AI assistant. The assistant is helpful, creative, clever, and very friendly.Human: Hello, who are you?
AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?
Human: What is an apple?
AI: An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree.
Human: Why?
AI: That is a very good question. The…

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Merzmensch
Merzazine

Futurist. AI-driven Dadaist. Living in Germany, loving Japan, AI, mysteries, books, and stuff. Writing since 2017 about creative use of AI.