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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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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 bumping along only in retrospect. Today, in dialogue with artificial intelligence, I perceive a disquieting truth: human survival in a world populated by superintelligences will not depend primarily on our…
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Intelligence & Société N°5, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Video – LLMs: Will we run out of data?
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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…
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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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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, Claude, Gemini or LLaMA3. In the press he goes often under the…
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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 cultures born, on the one hand, in the Fertile Crescent and, on…
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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 has offered ever-changing answers, each shaped by an understanding of ourselves that reflects…
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A review of « L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité » by the two chatting IAs at NotebookLM
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‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’, AOC, March 5th 2024
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Review of my article ‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’ by NotebookLM’s AIs
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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 light of his or her encounter with an artificial intelligence (AI) of…
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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 experience of my mental life, I can report that my self-reflective processes are not limited to the times when…
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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 classic theoretical computer science question about the relationship – insofar as there is one –…
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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 word, and so does Moustafa Suleyman. For some years I’ve stated that…
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Video – Has the Singularity taken place yet?
Some evidence from my own experience Transcript: What evidence is there that the singularity has taken place? I was wondering, in recent months, how would we know? When the singularity takes place, then everything becomes very different because there’s been an acceleration in the way things change. And more and more it’s artificial intelligence…
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The French Regional Press – Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have invented a machine that is more intelligent than we are”, by Samuel Ribot
© Gregory Van Gansen/Imagetting Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have invented a machine that is more intelligent than we are”. By Samuel Ribot / ALP March 30th 2024 Paul Jorion, an anthropologist, economist, psychoanalyst and artificial intelligence researcher, writes a dazzling book about a revolution that we should be as wary of as we are…