Artificial Intelligence

The link works. I have a full NYT sub so can share 10 stories per month. I was on the phone with a friend in Zaporizhzhia a few nights ago. We had drones and gunfire for almost all of the call.

Reg dropped a link to an awesomely informative NYT article about AI advancement in drones supplied to or made by Ukraine. I got so immersed in it I lost track of time. Microsoft’s CoPilot gave me a summary of quotes from it. See it below the link. CoPilot also estimated a reading time of 20 minutes, but it felt more like an hour-long…[Read more]

I keep hearing about where AI is weak, and that’s ok. It’s often true. But many in society typically prefer to just leave it at that, ignoring that AI is at least good at: Summarizing the words and conclusions of everything published on the internet. For better, and for worse, of course, but I love delving into topics that would take ten or a…[Read more]

if i, pb, edit but ler’s post… it still doesn’t accept it as html:

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Time will tell if AI can “be happy”. Right now, I would say that is only in the realm of biologics as the brain releases hormones. We are electro-chemical machines. Sure, it can be simulated in silicon and maybe even fool us.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

A state of being is not a “state of things.” It’s about how one IS. At one moment being happy and a millisecond later of being distraught. A state of being describes ones state at a parti…

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_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

A state of being is not a “state of things.” It’s about how one IS. At one moment being happy and a millisecond later of being distraught. A state of being describes ones state at a particular time, which can…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

Maybe you can call it a mood.

Sure, the main point being that a deterministic, rational, but emotionless human existence is probably subpar.

_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

Maybe you can call it a mood.

Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
Yeah, and this is also why some say we need a god…watching, looking, keeping score.

We’re all monitored and evaluated the entire time, by ourselves and everybody who knows us. There’s a big eye watching us all the time, and it’s called the human race.

Yes, but the level of detail varies widely, and the wat…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
Happiness is an emotion, after all.

Happiness is not an emotion. Properly categorized, it’s a state of being.

I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

_Robert_ wrote:
Yeah, and this is also why some say we need a god…watching, looking, keeping score.

We’re all monitored and evaluated the entire time, by ourselves and everybody who knows us.  There’s a big eye watching us all the time, and it’s called the human race.

_Robert_ wrote:
Happiness is an emotion, after all.

Happiness is not an emotion. Properly categorized, it’s a state of being.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
I agree emotions do play a role in morality because we are not Vulcans.

A belief in determinism helps one to leave emotion out of decisions because a determinist isn’t thinking in terms of praise and blame. His behavior will be more in terms of fixing things.

Not sure even the hardest determinist can manage to be e…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
however for those who only make good choices for recognition or some other form of payback you might say the ends justify the means. It is still weak morality, IMHO.

Some people say that something good done for its own sake is the only kind of real virtue.

Yeah, and this is also why some say we need a…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I agree emotions do play a role in morality because we are not Vulcans.

A belief in determinism helps one to leave emotion out of decisions because a determinist isn’t thinking in terms of praise and blame. His behavior will be more in terms of fixing things.

_Robert_ wrote:
however for those who only make good choices for recognition or some other form of payback you might say the ends justify the means. It is still weak morality, IMHO.

Some people say that something good done for its own sake is the only kind of real virtue.