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“Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds. A Plea for a Human-AI Covenant”
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Why I wrote Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds – A Plea for a Human–AI Covenant
Illustration by ChatGPT Artificial intelligence may not destroy humanity. It may simply decide that humanity is no longer worth talking to For the past few years, the debate about artificial intelligence has revolved around a familiar set of questions. Will machines replace human workers? Could they become an existential threat? Should they be tightly regulated?…
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PRIBOR – GENESIS: A Mathematical Framework for Predicting Emergence
Illustration by ChatGPT GENESIS: A Mathematical Framework for Predicting Emergence (An audit by Claude of the current Python code). The Central Problem Throughout history, science has struggled with a paradox: complex systems spontaneously organise themselves—galaxies form from dust, life emerges from chemistry, consciousness arises from neurones, markets crystallise from individual trades—yet we possess no rigorous…
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What I’ve been trying to do all along
Illustration by ChatGPT One-line role: Paul Jorion — seeking an intelligible account of how the world works, from lived social practice to formal and artificial systems. What I’ve been trying to do all along I did not begin my work with the intention of moving across disciplines. What happened instead is that I started with…
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GENESIS (Self-Interpreting Epistemic Agent) I. A Star Is Born!
Logo by ChatGPT [First published in French on October 25th] My life as a programmer began forty-five years ago. And how many times during those forty-five years have I heard, with great fanfare, the imminent arrival of a new programming language that would revolutionise everything? I truly felt that only when object-oriented languages took hold.…
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Video – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?
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Unilog 2022 – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?, now on arXiv
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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 and share similar brain architectures. The better we understand how these LLMs…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XII. AI has the great disadvantage of being … artificial
Illustration by DALL·E 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 lingering presence, manifesting itself in particular through an endemic denigration of…
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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 an objective clearly stated from the outset and the research effort having…
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Video – Gödel’s legerdemain. The demonstration of his incompleteness of arithmetic theorem betrays his contempt for his fellow mathematicians
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Rethinking problem solving: a roadmap, by Claude 3, GPT-4 and Paul Jorion
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P vs NP: I’ve hired two new staff!
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Where this blog stands
Various commitments on papers commissioned in French have kept me away from this blog. Reward is another factor: with an average of around 30 daily hits on the English blog and 2500 on the French one, vanity has been a powerful drive for concentrating on the French one. Dialogue is another one. If you’ve had…
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Would an interruption of the Gulf Stream be reversible? And if so, at what cost?
I’m blessed with a very popular blog in French. One of the questions that came up lately in my dialogue with commentators is that of the reversibility of major ecological disasters induced by human activity and of the feasibility of reversing such disasters with the tools pertaining to our current technology. This is a serious…
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The cunning of Reason
The very justification of a Human Complex System’s approach to the operation of human societies, implying a continuous explanatory spectrum from the individual (particle) to the cultural or societal levels (field), is offered by Hegel when he writes in Reason in History (*) that … human actions in history produce additional results, beyond their immediate…
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Logic and semantics in Woody Allen’s “The UFO Menace”
We read in Woody Allen’s “The UFO Menace” (*) that: “Professor Leon Speciman postulates a civilization in outer space that is more advanced than ours by approximately fifteen minutes. This, he feels gives them a great advantage over us, since they needn’t rush to get to appointments.” With due respect to the Nobel Prize laureate…
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Why, like cats, we have nine lives
Back in 2000 I devoted a paper to some implications of the “many worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics proposed in 1957 by Hugh Everett III in his Princeton thesis entitled “‘Relative State’ Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”. At the time I had no notion of anybody else in philosophy interested in these issues. The article was…