What Would a Stoic Do? An AI-Based mostly Resolution-Making Mannequin | by Pol Marin | Jan, 2025

Deep Studying

Utilizing AI to construct Marcus Aurelius’ reincarnation

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I’ve been studying, studying about, and training stoicism for some years now. Ever since I began posting on Medium, it’s been a purpose to combine knowledge science and philosophy into one single venture.

Merging each worlds is hard, nevertheless, however right here I’m lastly making an attempt it out.

What you’ll learn right this moment is a decision-making mannequin primarily based on stoicisim. The purpose is to make use of deep studying to construct a stoic mind (type of) and, in case of powerful selections, it ought to assist us lean in the direction of what a stoic would do.

In different phrases, construct an AI-based reincarnation of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus…

That’s a giant problem although. I’m not even an NLP engineer nor something associated. Can it actually be finished? Spoiler alert: sure. On the finish of this publish you’ll know the best way to develop a mannequin like this one and, extra importantly, additionally study to do it with your personal knowledge in a totally totally different context. The tip consequence will probably be a web-based chatbot constructed with a quite simple Flask utility.

You shall discover the whole code within the assets part on the backside of this text.