Almost fifty years ago, in his book Imaginary Magnitude, Stanislaw Lem included a chapter on philosophical works generated by AI. One title mentioned is “Antikant”. I was inspired to try this out with GPT-J, specifying only the title, the abstract, and the headings of the desired essay. Here is the result, created in less than a minute:
The resulting “essay” is not philosophically meaningful—whereas Kant’s work definitely is. But I do wonder how long it will be before machine-generated philosophy is just as coherent as human-generated philosophy.
Almost fifty years ago, in his book Imaginary Magnitude, Stanislaw Lem included a chapter on philosophical works generated by AI. One title mentioned is “Antikant”. I was inspired to try this out with GPT-J, specifying only the title, the abstract, and the headings of the desired essay. Here is the result, created in less than a minute:
https://pastebin.com/5rXiAp3G
The resulting “essay” is not philosophically meaningful—whereas Kant’s work definitely is. But I do wonder how long it will be before machine-generated philosophy is just as coherent as human-generated philosophy.