Deep learning
Using ai to build the reincarnation of Marcus Aurelius
I have been reading, learning and practicing Stoicism for a few years. Since I started publishing on Medium, my goal has been to combine data science and philosophy into one project.
However, merging both worlds is difficult, but here I am finally trying it.
What you will read today is a decision-making model based on stoicism. The goal is to use deep learning to build a stoic (more or less) brain, and in case of difficult decisions, it should help us lean towards what a stoic would do.
In other words, building an ai-based reincarnation of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus…
However, that is a big challenge. I'm not even an NLP engineer or anything related. Can it really be done? Spoiler alert: yes. By the end of this post you will know how to develop a model like this and, more importantly, you will also learn how to do it with your own data in a completely different context. The end result will be a web-based chatbot built with a very simple Flask application.
You will find the complete code in the resources section at the end of this article.
