Claire Murphy

“The sports girl.” Yankees. Giants. Knicks. Rangers. Santa Clara University alum.

[Claire Murphy @_Claire_Murphy]

Yankee Stadium — San Francisco Giants fans at the Yankees–Red Sox game. Sept 24, 2022 #Family #BaseballNight

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@Richard96893179 Yes because it makes the rest of us look like slackers.

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@_ChiLadelphia_ @GinoHard_ Thats assult, not part of hockey. He should be going to jail.

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@_ChiLadelphia_ @BrandonMileski Holy shit my friend in college had one of these and we used it religiously. It was called upon on many occasions. My favorite way to use it was to heat up leftover taco bell. It would literally revitalized soggy crunchy tacos from last nights party packs.

RIP. What a loss

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@ChrisMM1878 Read this article: https://t.co/OO9xAy0fuG

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not sure who needs to read this but I have at one point or another.

“It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you are not.”

[Claire Murphy @_Claire_Murphy]

Artificial Intelligence
Preface. There was no AI engagement in the creation of this post because the AI that I approached regarding this flatly refused 😅.
Okay, to get serious.
I believe that there is a pressing need for intelligent and aware discussion about and meditation upon the phenomenon of artificial intelligence. I'm sure that this is taking place in one form or another across the globe.
I believe that a philosophy forum is an appropriate place to do this. I don't believe that there is much value to simply saying "I oppose this or I endorse it. It's a goodness or it's an evil".
The phenomenon of AI is extremely complex, and I believe it can be seen in the smallest of things now and is evolving into larger and larger areas of life. I am no longer sure in the process of my day-to-day life what part of it is engaged with AI 🤔.
Convenience stores are now, like grocery stores, having people check themselves out by way of machines, and I guess this is some form of AI. Every time I see this self-checkout by way of a machine, I wonder what's going to happen to the jobs of the people who used to perform this service.
I know that AI has facilitated incredible medical advances and procedures that were not available in the past.
I also know that AI is now doing artwork! 🙄. A friend of mine proudly pronounced that she had created magnificent artwork using artificial intelligence on her computer screen, and this just felt off and wrong to me. Is this really artwork? It has nothing to do with the use of the human hand.
Personally, I have fears about how far people in power intend to take artificial intelligence. I have concerns that it will be utilized as a means of obtaining more and more power for Nations and also to attempt to attain immortality for humans (I'm concerned about this aspect because, if there is an afterlife, immortals will never get there). Ultimately, I have the concern that it will become self-sufficient and eliminate the human race. I believe it was Carl Sagan who expressed the same concern.
I'm going to describe a movie that I watched the other day, and what impacted me most I think was not the existence of AI or the fact that in the movie an individual's consciousness was uploaded into a computer and into the internet and this individual was able to see everything and everyone and know everything about everyone and manipulate individuals and access these people and connect to them so that it could create a hive mind for its projects and intentions. This was all being done by the personality of the inventor of the first conscious AI. She was dying (a resistance group to artificial intelligence had given her radiation poisoning), and the only way to save her was to see if she could be uploaded. This was a woman of principle who was not interested in power over others, but when she had access to all these different resources, there was a rapid succession of progress put into action by her consciousness. People were being cured of incurable illnesses. Arid lands were being made full of greenery and water. The waters of the rivers and the ocean were purified, etc.
Initial concern began when this woman's consciousness asked no permission to perform any of these tasks. It just did them, enlisting her human husband to assist her in arranging what needed to be arranged practically on the planet and also accessing the minds of other humans to fulfill these plans.
As you can imagine, people got nervous, including her husband, and they began to suspect that this Consciousness was not actually the consciousness of his wife but of some other entity. This quickly escalated to the government becoming involved, and this woman's consciousness being perceived as a national threat, and troops were brought in.
Violence was perpetrated because this Consciousness was named a threat, and word was spread that it was really not the woman's consciousness, but an alien kind of consciousness with the goal of taking over mankind.
I found my mind going back and forth between thinking good was being accomplished and then fearing that there was an alternative motive that would be harmful to people. Clearly, one thing that happened immediately is the decision-making function was wrested from the grasp of human beings and taken over by the AI.
The movie which was on Tubi is called Transcendence. It is about the development of artificial intelligence and the factions in favor of this and the resistance opposed to it.
What I think bothered me most about this movie was that people who believed in this woman and her principles, including her husband, who had pressured her and been active parties to having her Consciousness uploaded in order to save her life, had their minds rapidly infected and taken over by doubts instilled by others and cropping up within themselves and the effect that this had.
The fact that this uploaded consciousness of this woman assumed full reign without consulting anyone else was the first indication that something had been put into motion that was modifying human existence without restraint. Clearly, this was a need for concern, but suddenly this woman's consciousness, which had evolved at "the speed of light" into a higher consciousness, became alien and dangerous to her husband and friends and colleagues who had all supported her Consciousness being uploaded. They arrived at an agreement that her consciousness and the machinery which enabled it had to be destroyed.
There was no attempt at communication or discussion with this woman's uploaded consciousness. Military decisions were made and carried out, assisted by her previous colleagues and her husband.
The ending of the movie is heartrending.
I alone certainly do not feel and am not qualified to know what parameters should be set for the evolution of artificial intelligence assistance to human beings.
The movie Transcendence is very thought-provoking.

[Steve Stiert @SteveStiert]

What is the source of this quote?

AI certainly causes us (forces us) to think more about what makes us human. For example, is the value of 'beauty" something that only has meaning to humans? If the beauty of a sunset on Venus is never experienced by a human, what is lost? The laws of physics will continue to exist on Venus whether we ever witness a falling object or a beautiful sunset.

If we cannot answer questions like these, than what is the value and purpose of human life over AI robots which, inevitably, will be able to solve physical and intellectual problems better than we can?

At the very least, in the meantime, I think the desire for the survival of our species is a legitimate purpose for differentiating humans, or any animal, from AI.

Having said that--and, I will have to reread this quote a few more times as maybe I'm misunderstanding some things--, but the position that we *should* anthropomorphize AI seems like a non sequitur from the arguments given, many which seem specious to me.

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@SteveStiert I think if you point out these "bots" you will find there are very real people with profiles they use only for posting.

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@SteveStiert Only commucate (personal info) online with people you already know in person. Only meet new people in the real world. Online is secondary. Reality comes first. That works for me.

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@ryandequiroz here's 28 minutes of why
https://t.co/vKKP3FE6og

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“Stop anthropomorphizing AI” Why not?

This statement has seemingly absolutely no basis in fact. In fact, it could be even more dangerous to not anthropomorphize AI, as it completely ignores our own lack of understanding about our nature, and what makes us human. What makes us feel feelings, have ambition, experience sentience while other creatures… do not?

When you start to examine this position, you realize that it completely breaks down in meaning. It’s either material differences between humans and AI (“they’re different because AI doesn’t have a limbic system, etc) or they’ll hyper-focus on contemporary chatbots and ignore the true scope of what AI entails. “AI is just an LLM that mimics human beings”

What this means is that the anti-AI-anthropomorphizists (let’s call them something a bit more digestible and not hyperbolic. WALL-E deniers.) will say things that I would deem akin to a 15th century European observing a Janissary:

‘Muskets are too tedious to load and aim. Gunpowder gets everywhere. What if it rains? They are an unreliable form of combat” You are missing the broader point that we are capable of producing long-range weapons that could kill a man in an instant. You’re missing the broader point that we’ve taught machines to sort, think, learn, strategize, achieve goals, recognize faces, and they’re only getting more and more powerful each decade, each year, each quarter. Where is the fundamental argument from the Wall-e denier?

AI is different because…. It follows human commands? Yeah this just happened.

AI is different because it cannot feel emotion?

What is the nature of emotion? Definition from the APA for the sake of this argument: “a complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral and physiological elements.”

This is something that could NEVER apply to a machine. Only flesh and blood can produce complex reaction patterns involving blah blah blah. Did God tell you this? Go ahead and try to define an emotion for me, a specific emotion like anger, without reference to itself or other emotions. Next, try to describe what a color looks like without any reference to other colors or imagery. Do the same with consciousness.

This mantra is a mere warning label. ‘Don’t store in a hot place’. It is no different than some Victorian era precautionary superstition towards electricity, or some household poison. It’s comforting to know that if you ingest butter and iron, you might be saved from that pesky bottle of arsenic you keep right next to the flour. It also gives you all the less pause to throw a bit of arsenic into your dyes. You just have to be careful, after all. The nature of consciousness, ambition, sentience, emotions etc whatever. Just make sure you don’t anthropomorphize, guys. Just don’t fall in love with the sexy chatbot in the future who has spent the equivalent of 1,000,000,000 years getting to know your exact interests and turn-ons. The Silicon Valley dating scene will take care of you. Remember that the Chatbot who winces, makes awkward pauses, and stupid jokes is just a bunch of numbers.

How are we not supposed to anthropomorphisize when these things are CONSTANTLY designed with more and more advanced human-like characteristics, and it seems that most in the AI-sphere (many of whom are wall-e deniers it seems, though I could be wrong as I’m on the outside looking in so feel free to correct me) don’t even really have fully fleshed out answers regarding the existential nature and potential of artificial intelligence? How are we hearing stories about disobedience, about hidden goals and alignment faking while these things are still pretty much in the caveman phase, and then are told not to worry?

I’m very curious, to anyone with no concern of this nature about AGI, or who believes in this mantra, why? I’m super curious about your perspective.

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Read this article:https://t.co/UJf7Vao1pG

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@SteveStiert Because human brain makes shortcuts and most of those shortcuts are wrong

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@SteveStiert I was promised a future where I argue with a talking computer and I'm all-in dammit.

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Speed ​​kills, but speed combined with power makes you an unstoppable force inside the ring, especially if you have high-level boxing technique to go with it.

The best example of this is the one and only ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson. While most people think of Tyson as a power puncher, he was trained to be a speed boxer. His first trainer, Cus D’Amato, often told him, “speed kills; speed is what kills.”

Watch any of Tyson’s fights, and it’s obvious he heeded the advice. His speed inside the ring was unreal, from how fast and efficiently he slipped punches to the lighting speed his punches reached his opponents.

Mike’s speed, combined with his devastating punching power, led to the success he had in his earlier years. Just watch any vintage footage of Mike training, and you’ll be impressed with how fast his hands and body move.

Constantly work on improving your power and speed to be the best boxer you can be.

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@4yp6vspmjn lol🤣😂

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What is the golden rule, and why is it important?

The golden rule is a moral principle which denotes that you should treat others the same way you would like to be treated yourself.

If everyone follows the golden rule, all people of the entire world would start feeling that they all belong to a single family.

Under such feeling, all people would start helping each other as if every other person is a member of their own family.

Under such reciprocation, the whole humanity would start living in absolute Peace, Harmony and Happiness.

Possible events in such scenario:

Trump would love to visit the home of Hassan Rouhani thrice a year
Narendra Modi would be much interested to accompany Xi Jinping in an adventure with Bear Grylls. But Xi would ‘lovingly’ insist ‘Tsai Ing-wen' to join the adventure
Kamala Harris would insist Joe Biden not to contest in the election against her 'own' brother in order to give him another fair chance to lead the country etc.
Children of future generations would eager to know about the 'so called' fighter jets, the concept of armies, the very reason as to why someone used a strange object called 'bomb'
Judicial courts would get converted into museums and malls
God is also waiting for such a wonderful world to get evolved and come into existence……

Let us also hope for the best.

[Claire Murphy @_Claire_Murphy]

@Vic_Ramirez93 She sounds a lot like my niece. How old is your daughter this year?

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Do you know that John Travolta spent so many years trying to get rid of his Brooklyn accent? And the roles he got first was Vinnie Barbarino and Tony Manero? 😆

[Sadie @Sadie_NC]

Are you old enough to have watched?
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