Having spent a fair bit of time with Sam, from philosophy to atheism to AI, I must say, the GPT-3 AI did a good job here.

This was the prompt to kickstart this particular persona: “This is a conversation with Sam Harris. Sam is a public intellectual, philosopher, neuroscientist, and well-known atheist. His work touches on meditation, free will, artificial intelligence, rationality, religion, ethics, psychedelics, and philosophy of mind.”

You can pose questions yourself here.

One response to “Sam Harris takes the Turing Test”

  1. Getting recursive… as if a Turing persona fooled Turing himself. From Sam Harris’ twitter:Sam Harris’ reaction reminds me of our fireside chat… perhaps ingested by the GPT-3 crawl! Sam’s conclusion on stage: "We’re giving rise to a race of Gods. These machines, by definition, will be more important than us.” I’m just glad we were anticipating Roko’s Basilisk by being so laudatory. Notes & AudioAI Futures and Philosophy with Sam Harris

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