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Wednesday 12 April 2023

Ars Magna

 I asked Chat GPT v3: Does your existence fulfil the dream of Ramon Llull for an Ars Magna?


It answered: Ramon Llull, a medieval philosopher, theologian, and writer, did propose the idea of an Ars Magna, or "Great Art," which would be a universal method for generating knowledge and understanding. While Llull's vision was not the same as the development of artificial intelligence or language models like myself, there are some similarities in the idea of a system for generating knowledge and understanding.


Llull's Ars Magna was based on a set of logical principles and a system of diagrams and symbols that could be used to generate new knowledge by combining and recombining different elements. Similarly, language models like myself use algorithms and natural language processing to generate new content by processing and combining input data in various ways.


However, it is important to note that the development of language models and artificial intelligence is a complex and ongoing process, and my abilities and limitations are determined by my programming and training data. While my existence may represent one step toward the realization of Llull's vision, it is not a direct fulfillment of his original idea.