[…] that’s left to do is get on with it ? So I followed DeepSeek’s advice, as I let you…
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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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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VI. Linnæus: Man taken down from his pedestal
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Linnæus: Man taken down from his pedestal
The biblical representation of Man as a creature special in the eyes of God suffered a first serious blow in 1735, when Carl Linnæus (1707-1778) classified the human species along animals, labelling it
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. V. The New Testament: Reciprocity
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The New Testament: Reciprocity
In the East, with totemism, which Durkheim and Mauss identified with China’s thought of archaic times there is no crucial divide between Man, the chosen creature in the eyes of God, and the other creatures placed
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