Carly says she’s too busy chasing wood pigeions to give about anything artificial.
Buddy! x
Using Chat GPT
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#22
I wonder what would happen if you gave an AI a college education. Would it learn to think for itself?
When I was an undergrad, Columbia was famous for its core curriculum, which consisted of courses called “Contemporary Civilization” and “Humanities,” the latter consisting of literature, art, and music. The books studied were the classics, whether philosophical or literary, that have shaped Western civilisation for better or worse, from the ancient philosophers and religious figures through the Renaissance thinkers, and at least through Marx and Engels, Weber, and the like. The works were chosen for the depth of their influence on Western civilisation, and the idea was to learn to think critically about what we read. The artworks studied ranged from Byzantine iconography to the Mediaeval and Renaissance masters through the Romantics and into Modernism. The music started with Gregorian chant and showed how all later developments grew out of it (even jazz and hip-hop can be shown to have plainchant DNA, by the way).
These courses broadened our horizons and forced us to think.
Of course you had to have already studied formal logic, and back then it was taught in high school as part of algebra and geometry. So I’d add mathematics to the list of things for the AI to study. In fact, the late Robert Heinlein was of the opinion that anyone who learned mathematics ipso facto learned how to think, and could therefore successfully learn any other field. I’m not sure I agree entirely, but mathematics is a good place to start. The U. of Chicago list of Great Books is something else I’d be sure to feed to my AI, if I were training one.
Only then would I let it loose on teh Interwebz.
SomeGuy
(Joey)
#23
This is a superb idea.
And by including Machiavelli’s The Prince, Marx/Engel’s Manifesto, and Hitler’s Mein Kampf, our AI-driven bots will be ready to meet any need. 
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#24
One of the things we learned was to think of civilisation as a long-lasting conversation with both our ancestors and our descendants. Machiavelli, Marx, and even Hitler all fit into a broader context. The were reacting to influences on the past, just as we react to them today. The key is to think about what we read, which is a learned, not an innate, skill.