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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 lesser degree, what Rousseau called in a non-disparaging way, the “stupidity” of the animal.…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIII. Scaling up
Illustration by DALL·E 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 element being the ‘transformer’. The route to synthesising human intelligence which turned out…
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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. 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. II. Decentring and refocusing the definition of “us”
Illustration by DALL·E from the text Decentring and refocusing the definition of ‘us’ Who do we think we should protect as a last resort, the members of a strictly defined ‘us’ with some and a vaguely defined ‘us’ among others, when things go wrong, as they unfortunately do time and time again on this troubled…
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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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An Ambitious Project II. Consciousness: Claude is enthusiastic. I test her or him right away.
Illustration by Stable Diffusion (+PJ) Claude : I would be deeply honoured and excited to collaborate with you on this project exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness. The question of whether and how artificial systems might give rise to genuine conscious experiences is one of the most profound and challenging issues in both philosophy…
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Meanwhile, at Pribor.io … things remain on the move!
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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 ! V. Towards an understanding of complex relational networks that better reflects the true nature of human intelligence
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ) P.J.: Great! I’m totally reassured about your grasping the emergent process. Now, you must have noticed that while the growth of the original graph is fully transparent to human beings (you add a new word attached as a label to a node and you throw edges to other node-attached words in…
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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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Rethinking problem solving: a roadmap, by Claude 3, GPT-4 and Paul Jorion
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P vs NP: Research program for an alternative in problem solving
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P vs NP exposed?
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Pribor.io seeks co-authors for scientific articles
Pribor.io was born in June 2022. We are now ready to publish our first scientific papers showing the comparative merits of the “top-down” approach of LLMs, the large language models (gigantic, costs billions of dollars, learns by complete updates over several years) and the “bottom-up” approach (compact, cheap, learns continuously) adopted at pribor.io with SAM…
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Pribor.io – Self-Aware Machines (AI) – Phase II
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PRIBOR : Self-Aware Machines (SAM)
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Video – Thought as Word Dynamics #19 – Making speech out of memory