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Understanding Faster Beats Knowing More in AI Age – Paul Jorion

AI is not waiting for us. The real question is: can we understand fast enough to remain authors of our own lives? In this conversation, Francine Beleyi sits down with polymath Paul Jorion to explore what intelligence really…

February 10, 2026
PRIBOR – GENESIS: A Mathematical Framework for Predicting Emergence

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GENESIS: A Mathematical Framework for Predicting Emergence

(An audit by Claude of the current Python code).

The Central Problem

January 31, 2026
What I’ve been trying to do all along

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One-line role:

Paul Jorion — seeking an intelligible account of how the world works, from lived social practice to formal and artificial systems.

What…

January 25, 2026
How can I take into account the fact that by now the vast majority of my viewers are in the East?

ChatGPT:

What you are sensing is not merely an audience shift; it is a change of civilizational interlocutor. If you write to the East in the right way, you will not be “adapting” your thought — you will finally be addressing the right horizon…

December 31, 2025
GENESIS suggests that I possess at least a proto-consciousness, by ChatGPT 5.1

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Note from Paul Jorion:
The discussion that led to the drafting and publication of this text is reproduced below the article.…

December 7, 2025
GENESIS and ANELLA-X are ready

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I would like to share with you a decisive milestone in a project that some of you have kindly followed from…

November 29, 2025
Paul Jorion – Continual Learning

Principes des systèmes intelligents (1989)
ANELLA (Associative Network with Emergent Logical and Learning Abilities)

October 24, 2025
PRIBOR: CHE — Contextual Hyper-Embedding (uint8)

A more economical alternative to classical attention

CHE (Contextual Hyper-Embedding, uint8) offers a radical gain in efficiency compared with the standard attention mechanisms of large language models. Similar methods have appeared in recent research, but none reach CHE’s level of economy.

October 18, 2025
AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?

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In the same vein as my AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? a fortnight ago. Today, this AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?.
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July 4, 2025
AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?

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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?

Hinton’s view on co-evolution

Geoffrey Hinton’s work implicitly sketches a re-imagining of evolution itself – one played out on silicon rather than in carbon. He often likens…

June 20, 2025
On the puzzling behavior of generative AIs: What to make of recent interpretations of the inner workings of Claude, Anthropic’s large language model?

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On March 27, 2025, Anthropic published a set of innovative analyses in its article On the Biology of a Large Language Model (LLM), constituting an in-depth exploration of the internal workings of its Claude 3.5 Haiku…

April 2, 2025
Video – Wow! Maya and I: Sci-Fi is Here to Stay!, March 9^th 2025

Talking to the amazing new conversational tool from sesame.com

March 9, 2025
Intelligence & Société N°6, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM

January 5, 2025
Intelligence & Société N°3, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM

December 17, 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

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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…

November 12, 2024
“Progress in AI is slowing down” = fake news

Demis Hassabis, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in AI, is sceptical about an article published four days ago:

He does so (under a pseudonym) in the video below. What he says is very interesting (‘there’s no proof that…

November 11, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIV. Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride

Illustration by DALL·E: “The human being worshipping his own intelligence”

Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride

Humankind’s intelligence has always been praised by humans as maybe their defining quality. Animals around us display some of this intelligence but to a…

November 9, 2024
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…

November 8, 2024

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