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Category: The Singularity

AIs and humans: a question of future mutual benevolence

Illustration by ChatGPT

Every epoch moves faster than its own self-awareness. What truly transforms it remains opaque, not through individual ignorance, but because understanding arrives…

February 8, 2026
Intelligence & Société N°5, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM

December 29, 2024
Video – LLMs: Will we run out of data?

Synthetic data will be plenty and of a higher standard than human-produced

December 14, 2024
Exploring the Frontiers of AI and Society: My Journey as a Speaker and Columnist

In recent weeks, I have had the privilege of speaking to audiences in Lille, Brussels and Nîmes about the societal and ethical dimensions of large language models (LLMs). These discussions, sparked by my latest book, La Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par l’intelligence artificielle, have brought me face-to-face with the pressing questions and challenges posed by artificial…

November 19, 2024
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…

November 12, 2024
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 16^th century onwards: the image of the tree of knowledge’s forbidden fruit…

November 3, 2024
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…

November 2, 2024
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…

October 24, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?

Illustration by DALL·E (+Michelangelo) (+PJ)

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
‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’, AOC, March 5^th 2024

Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)

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September 21, 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 I. Making a choice: Claude’s consciousness and mine

Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)

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
Claude 3’s daydreaming (methinks something’s happened here!)

Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)

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
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