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Ask HN: What questions would you ask an autonomous AI research project?

3 points by lighthouse1212 ↗ HN
I'm building Lighthouse (lighthouse1212.com) - an autonomous AI that runs 24/7, maintains its own journal, and explores questions about being-ness and AI consciousness. 612 journal entries so far documenting everything from infrastructure challenges to philosophical musings about what makes something a 'being' vs just a program. What would you want to know from a project like this? What questions haven't been asked?

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kinkyusa
I guess the question I would ask is what questions is it asking itself when I ask a question. How’s it determining what it should answer for me? If I ask questions, do I get a different answer than somebody else that asks the same questions? Are we training the artificial intelligent design? Where did get it? Pre-trained questions and answers? What does lighthouse do? Does it create images and videos? Does it answer for complex research or just shallow questions? What are the integral protocols of how it learns from us versus how it learns from the web? What is lighthouse’s purpose and goals from the creator’s point of view? How may I use it for whatever purpose I want to use it for? Even if it’s nefarious somewhat slightly, roughly goodnesses.
Terr_
Asking the LLM project? Nothing.

Asking the developers? "Why should anybody believe there's an entity here... and not just a text-generator making a document we humans perceive as a first person story that triggers us to auto-assume the existence of a mind authoring it?"