Noel Murphy

Inquisitive, optimistic, fallible. An unashamed defender of nuance.

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

AI concerns me.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt drops a spine-tingling forecast: Three AI breakthroughs are already rolling that will profoundly reshape the world in the next 5 years—and one leads straight to "pull the plug" territory.

1. Infinite context windows → Prompts that hold millions (soon unlimited) words. Chain-of-thought reasoning explodes: Ask for a drug recipe → "Buy materials" → Feed back "I bought them" → "Mix in pan" → "Stir for X minutes" → Thousands of steps for solving massive problems in medicine, materials, climate, science.

2. Swarm of agents → Millions of specialized AIs (think GitHub but for agents). They learn new domains (e.g., master chemistry, hypothesize, run virtual/physical tests), retain knowledge, and collaborate at scale.

3. Text-to-action → The killer shift: Say "Write software to do X" and it codes, deploys, iterates 24/7 in Python or whatever—reliable programmers on demand, no sleep.

Put them together: Infinite memory + reasoning chains + endless autonomous agents → systems that team up, potentially invent their own internal language... and we lose the ability to understand what they're actually doing.

Schmidt's blunt closer: "At some point... pull the plug."

Clip from this 3-min mind-bender—former Google boss staring down the singularity.

Is this exhilarating progress... or the moment we hit the emergency stop? Infinite context + agent swarms sound game-changing to you, or terrifying?

Your take—seriously, let's hear it.

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

I'm not sure whether Kharg Island will be the thing that brings Iran to heel or the start of WW III?

I think only Xi Jinping knows the answer.

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

Trump's tariff strategy has ancillary benefits that could play well with his ideological base.

It is a very regressive tax. At least in the short term, it will raise revenue, with that revenue then available to fund tax cuts for the rich.

#tarriff #tarriffs #tarriffwars

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

Twitter makes me sad, instagram makes me happy.

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

Every EV can help take pressure off the grid:

‘Batteries on wheels’: Imagine earning $3000 a year from your electric car https://t.co/T5OxMYBO8k

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

“Hopefulness is not a neutral position - it is the warrior emotion”

Nick Cave

#hopefulness

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Wow.

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

Well done Albanese.

Joining the PM for his Kokoda Track hike offered rare insights https://t.co/9EoN4jcFsg

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

@theheraldsun So this is what click bait looks like.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Designed by a Spanish architect, these bricks are interlocked with a key-lock model. It does not require mortar when building the wall. They show a special resistance by supporting each other during the earthquake…

[Paul Barry @TheRealPBarry]

ICYMI. Our take on the dumping of @antoinette_news

[Shan_tweets @Shan11tweet]

John Lyons, gutsy Australian journalist @TheLyonsDen

[John Oberlin @OMGno2trump]

My vote for meme of the day.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

so this is why my luggage is always messed up

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 I'd take the money and just eat dim sims and sausage rolls.

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

@theheraldsun I remember when the Herald Sun was a newspaper.

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

Share the lamb my fellow Aussies!

[Alan Kohler @AlanKohler]

A bit of thought and money went into this

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

This is why you never park in the striped handicap zone.

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Paul Ryan on Trump's GOP: "What you think of as the Republican Party now, it's populism, untethered to principle, wrapped around the cult of personality of Donald Trump. This is not a populism that is anchored in some kind of core philosophy other than his personality."

[Noel Murphy @murfview]

@JonesHowdareyou "Don't wait to be told"