Cf: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 2 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/07/20/inquiry-into-inquiry-on-initiativ… Re: Scott Aaronson ( https://scottaaronson.blog/ ) (1) ( https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6524 ) (2) ( https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6534 ) (3) ( https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6541 ) <QUOTE SA:> Personally, I'd give neither of them [Bohr or Einstein] perfect marks, in part because they not only both missed Bell's Theorem, but failed even to ask the requisite question (namely: what empirically verifiable tasks can Alice and Bob use entanglement to do, that they couldn't have done without entanglement?). But I'd give both of them very high marks for, y'know, still being Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. </QUOTE> To Ask The Requisite Question ============================= This brings me to the question I was going to ask on the AI post, but was afraid to ask. Does GPT-3 ever ask an original question on its own? Simply asking for clarification of an interlocutor's prompt is not insignificant but I'm really interested in something more spontaneous and “self‑starting” than that. Does it ever wake up one morning, as it were, and find itself in a “state of question”, a state of doubt or uncertainty so compelling as to bring it to ask on its own initiative what we might recognize as a novel question? Resources ========= Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/12/27/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-… Survey of Theme One Program https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/06/12/survey-of-theme-one-program-4/ Regards, Jon

Cf: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 5 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/05/22/inquiry-into-inquiry-on-initiativ… Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 2 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/07/20/inquiry-into-inquiry-on-initiativ… Re: Mathstodon • Joeri Sebrechts https://mathstodon.xyz/@joeri_s@mstdn.social/110401673746671834 <QUOTE JS:> That's not how it works. The model lacks agency. It is a machine whose gears are cranked by the user's prompt. It can ask questions, but only when prompted to. It is not doing anything at all when it isn't being prompted. </QUOTE> Sure, I understand that. The hedge “as it were” is used advisedly for the sake of the argument. (I wrote my own language learner back in the 80s.) Speaking less metaphorically, the program and its database are always in their respective states and the program has the capacity to act on the database even when not engaged with external prompts. Is there any reason why the program's “housekeeping” functions should not include one to measure its current state of “uncertainty” (entropy of a distribution) with regard to potential questions — or any reason why it should “hurt to ask”? As it were … Regards, Jon