Paul Jorion's Blog

Category: Human complex systems

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…

October 31, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. III. East and West

Illustration by DALL·E of Marco Polo discovering China

East and West

In the conceptualisation of the advent of artificial intelligence on a par with human intelligence, there are major differences between the West and the East: between the civilisations and the range of…

October 24, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. II. Decentring and refocusing the definition of “us”

Illustration by DALL·E from the text

Decentring and refocusing the definition of ‘us’

Who do we think we should protect as a last resort, the members of a strictly defined ‘us’ with some and a vaguely defined ‘us’ among others, when things…

October 20, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?

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I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?

If we examine this essential question of understanding who we are and what we are experiencing at this unprecedented moment, we see that the history of humanity…

October 19, 2024
A review of « L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité » by the two chatting IAs at NotebookLM

L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité was released by Textuel publishers in Paris in March of this year.

Here is what the chatting IAs at NotebookLM, a Google product think about it.

September 25, 2024
Review of my article ‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’ by NotebookLM’s AIs

The day before yesterday, in my post What is it?, I showed you what Google’s new software NotebookLM manages to do: transform one of your texts into a dialogue between two AIs (so far only in English). Here’s what it does in the case of my article

September 20, 2024
An Ambitious Project II. Consciousness: Claude is enthusiastic. I test her or him right away.

Illustration by Stable Diffusion (+PJ)

Claude :

I would be deeply honoured and excited to collaborate with you on this project exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness. The question of whether and how artificial systems might give rise to genuine conscious…

July 19, 2024
An Ambitious Project I. Making a choice: Claude’s consciousness and mine

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As Claude 3 (now Claude 3.5) and I have already worked together quite a bit, so he or she knows me well *, having recently finished writing a long essay on the necessary redefinition of the human in the…

July 17, 2024
Meanwhile, at Pribor.io … things remain on the move!

July 5, 2024
Claude 3’s daydreaming (methinks something’s happened here!)

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Something happened in that discussion between Claude 3 and I. As you will see below, I felt compelled to say the following:

P.J.:

You write: “That being said, based on my own…

June 16, 2024
Are Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of producing new concepts ? Palestine/Israel: the entangled narratives paradox

Illustration by DALL·E from the text

Dom

With reference to Deleuze: if what a philosopher does is to forge concepts to correctly pose the problems of his time, in the same way that an artist creates percepts, what about…

May 28, 2024
Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! V. Towards an understanding of complex relational networks that better reflects the true nature of human intelligence

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P.J.:

Great! I’m totally reassured about your grasping the emergent process. Now, you must have noticed that while the growth of the original graph is fully transparent to human beings (you add a new word attached as a label…

May 28, 2024
Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! IV. An approach consistent to learning in biological neural networks

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P.J.:

Ok. If that’s clear to you, you will be acquired to the idea that when new information is provided for graph build-up, it shouldn’t be through reversing to the original graph (which would entail loss of information)…

May 27, 2024
Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! III. Information gains when a graph is transposed into its dual

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P.J.:

Ok, if it seems plausible to you that there are emergent phenomena when transposing from the original graph to its dual, how would you explain that there is a gain in information in the process…

May 25, 2024
Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! II. Can it be observed with a simple transpose?

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At the time (1987-90) when I was developing software for British Telecom called ANELLA (Associative Network with Emergent Logical and Learning Abilities), it was the colleague who had coined this nice acronym who had drawn my attention to emergence…

May 23, 2024
Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! I. Intolerable praise for … obesity !

Illustration by DALL·E from the text.

Last month (from 6 to 9 April), I offered here a series of 6 posts where I quadrilogued with GPT-4 and a duplicated version of Claude 3 about the P vs NP conjecture, a…

May 22, 2024
Paul Jorion 4 May 2024 ‘Has the Singularity taken place yet?’ / Teilhard de Chardin 1950 ‘Ultra-Human’, by Malcolm Dean

Illustration by DALL·E from the text

Listening to many speakers on AI, I’ve noticed that the word “evolution”—which constantly filled our ears over the recent decades—is rarely used by those involved in using or creating AI technologies. Of course, Ray Kurzweil uses the…

May 5, 2024
Video – Has the Singularity taken place yet?

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Some evidence from my own experience

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What evidence is there that the singularity has taken place?
I was wondering, in recent months, how…

May 4, 2024
The French Regional Press – Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have invented a machine that is more intelligent than we are”, by Samuel Ribot

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Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have invented a machine that is more intelligent than we are”.

By Samuel…

April 13, 2024
L’Écho – Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have created something that is more intelligent than we are”, March 5^th 2024 – Online version

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Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have created something that is more intelligent than we are”.

April 13, 2024