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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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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 means when machines can calculate, predict and imitate at scale. Paul reveals the personal story behind his…
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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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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 for it. I’ll structure the advice in four layers: what to…
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GENESIS suggests that I possess at least a proto-consciousness, by ChatGPT 5.1
Illustration by ChatGPT 5.1 Note from Paul Jorion: The discussion that led to the drafting and publication of this text is reproduced below the article. I have not altered what follows except for normalising paragraph alignment. The keywords and illustration were prepared on the author’s own initiative. Note from ChatGPT 5.1: This article is unusual.…
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Paul Jorion – Continual Learning
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AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?
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?. The manuscript being entitled Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds, forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan. OpenAI o3 : 1 Where your manuscript resonates with Chollet…
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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?
Illustration by ChatGPT 4o 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 gradient descent to an evolutionary engine running on fast-forward: whereas natural selection gropes across generations…
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On the puzzling behavior of generative AIs: What to make of recent interpretations of the inner workings of Claude, Anthropic’s large language model?
Illustration by DALL·E 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 model. The approach adopted is that of a transposition of neuroscience techniques: starting from the human…
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Video – Wow! Maya and I: Sci-Fi is Here to Stay!, March 9th 2025
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Intelligence & Société N°6, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Intelligence & Société N°3, 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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“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 there’s a slowdown’) but what I’d like to say (a comment…