Admittedly, I was a little thrown off by the direction this took. From my perspective, you (1) identified the major…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XV. Updating the “us” within a technological context
Illustration by DALL·E
Updating the “us” within a technological context
In the same way as Linnæus positioned us among the anthropoid apes, now the existence of intelligent machines sets us in a family of intelligent beings where living creatures and machines rub shoulders
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“Progress in AI is slowing down” = fake news
Demis Hassabis, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in AI, is sceptical about an article published four days ago:
He does so (under a pseudonym) in the video below. What he says is very interesting (‘there’s no proof that there’s a
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIV. Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride
Illustration by DALL·E: “The human being worshipping his own intelligence”
Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride
Humankind’s intelligence has always been praised by humans as maybe their defining quality. Animals around us display some of this intelligence but to a lesser degree,
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIII. Scaling up
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Scaling up
A second source of our unpreparedness for an artificial intelligence better than ours is that the very way the overtaking occurred was unexpected being almost entirely due to a process of gain in size – the extra element being
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XII. AI has the great disadvantage of being … artificial
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AI has the great disadvantage of being … artificial
This does not mean however that scientific research had become an easy pursuit in the West from the 16th century onwards: the image of the tree of knowledge’s forbidden fruit maintained its
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XI. Why were we caught off-guard by AI?
A portrait of Tycho Brahe, Royal Astrologist of Danemark, by Stable Diffusion
Why were we caught off-guard by AI?
Despite artificial intelligence having been a field of research since the 1950s and the achievement of software of the type of LLMs having been
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. X. The rise of the LLMs
Portrait of Geoffrey Hinton by Stable Diffusion
The rise of the LLMs
This is the way things stood before some recent events that led Geoffrey Hinton to make a disturbing statement. Geoffrey Hinton is the mastermind behind Large Language Models such as ChatGPT,
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. IX. Freud: The soul in the realm of suspicion
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Freud: The soul in the realm of suspicion
What Linnæus and Darwin had forced to reconsider was the notion of Man as having been created entirely separately from the “the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VIII. Darwin: Man in a sequence
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Darwin: Man in a sequence
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was the thinker who added a historical perspective to the picture Linnaeus had painted: animal species that look like each other in their skeleton necessarily evolved from a common ancestor. Hence the
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VII. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Being more generous when defining Man
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Being more generous when defining Man
The question of the “us” extends however beyond the borders of the Homo sapiens species. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in his Essay on the origin of Inequality held the view that we’ve been
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I solved it! Paradox! The epistemic barrier was always in Paradox. Maintain truth as ambiguous (Both true OR false) until…
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LLMs deal essentially with language but seems amenable to graphics as well. To such an extent that one may wonder…
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